Transnational Organized Crime - Volume 1. Global Aspects

This edited book (volume 1) focuses on exploring the global security issues associated with transnational unconventional organized crime. The book is divided into 2 sections:
Part 1: Unconventional Organized Crime Landscape Part 2: Cyber space and organised crime
Transnational unconventional organized crime pose a significant and growing threat to national and global security affecting public safety, human security, public health, economic and governmental stability. Not to mention the contributions transnational organized crime makes to terrorist financing. The adaptive nature of transnational organized crime group as well as terrorist and insurgent organizations makes them capable of innovating in real-time to exploit natural disasters, social crisis and global pandemics.  Currently with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, transnational organized crime has flourished taking advantage of the unprecedented opportunities for illicit activities. For example as reported in TRACIT (2020) : Worldwide reports indicate a surge in the availability and type of fraudulent medical products intended to exploit the fears of consumers, which includes illicit offerings of falsified versions of treatments such as Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin that will harm or kill already vulnerable patients. Joint operations by the World Customs Organization, Europol and Interpol have resulted in a significant increase in seizures of counterfeit and unauthorized face masks and hand sanitizers.

List of contents

Part 1: Unconventional Organized Crime Landscape- national security implications.- Overview of unconventional crime as a business model.- Wildlife trafficking.-  Antiquities and Cultural Property.- trafficking for financing terrorism.- Rare earth metals and wood products Migration.- Counterfeit, fraudulent and Suspect Items (CFSI) COVID masks and Pharmaceuticals, aviation, nuclea.- Food Fraud.- Part 2: Law Enforcement and Technology solutions.- Border security technology and solutions.- Big data.- AI and ML.- Augmented and virtual reality.- Intelligence analysis.

About the author

Dr Anthony Masys is Associate Professor at the University of South Florida, College of Public Health. He is also a visiting Professor with the International Centre for Policing and Security, USW, an affiliate Associate Professor, former Strategic Area Lead for Interdisciplinary Science and Practice and former Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security.  He is currently a senior defence scientist with the Centre for Security Science, Department of National Defence Canada. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series. Dr Masys is an internationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops on security, visual thinking, design thinking and systems thinking in Europe, Canada, South America, West Africa and Asia. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. His recent books include: Opening the Black Box of Human Error, Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security. Springer Publishing, Disaster Management- Enabling Resilience. Springer Publishing, Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research for managing complexity. Springer Publishing, Exploring the Security Landscape- non-traditional security challenges. Springer Publishing, Disaster Forensics: understanding root cause and complexity causality. Springer Publishing, Asia/Pacific Security challenges: managing black swans and persistent threats. Springer Publishing, Security by Design, Global Health Security, Sensemaking for Security.
 
Prof Dr Christian Kaunert is Professor of International Security at Dublin City University, Ireland and Professor of Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. He is also In addition, he is Jean Monnet Chair, Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and Director of the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (www.eucter.net). Previously, he served as Academic Director and Professor at the Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, a Professor of International Politics, Head of Discipline in Politics, and the Director of the European Institute for Security and Justice, a Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence, at the University of Dundee. Prof Kaunert has researched and taught in many international universities, such as University of Shandong, Jinan, China, IBEI Barcelona, Spain, Diplomatic Academy Yerevan, Armenia – United Nations Development Mission, University of Cairo, Egypt, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy, Ecole nationale d’administration Paris, European Institute of Public Administration Maastricht, Netherlands, European Studies Institute (ESI) at Moscow, University of Porto, Portugal, etc. He was previously Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee, Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at the European University Institute Florence, and Senior Lecturer in EU Politics & International Relations, University of Salford. Christian has been invited expert for the EuropeanInstitute for Public Administration (EIPA), the Counter-Terrorism Committee of the European Parliament, the European Union Institute for Security Studies (an agency of the EU), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Over his career, he has been awarded seven prestigious Marie Curie Fellowships, four Jean Monnet Chairs, and, finally, three Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, as well as one Jean Monnet Network of Excellence ‘EUCTER’. Additionally, he was awarded a large Horizon 2020 research grant on Terrorist Radicalisation processes – Mindb4Act, and a large Horizon Europe Marie Curie Doctoral Training Network EUGLOCTER. He is currently Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies, the journal European Politics and Society, and was also previously an elected member of the national (UK) Executive Committee of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES) and co-founded and co-led the special interest section on the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice of the European Union Studies Association (EUSA). He has also previously been the Editor of the Journal of Contemporary European Research (JCER), on the Executive Committee member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES), and an Expert for the European Parliament. He is also on the editorial board of the journal European Politics and Society (EPS) and the Journal of European Integration (JEI). Prof. Kaunert holds a PhD in International Politics & an MSc in European Politics from the University of Wales Aberystwyth, a BA (Hons) European Business from Dublin City University, ESB Reutlingen and a BA (Hons) Open University.
 
Prof Dr Sarah Leonard is Professor of International Security at the University of South Wales, as well as Jean Monnet Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland. He was previously a Professor of International Security at the University of the West of England, Bristol (United Kingdom). Sarah’s research interests lie at the intersection between Security Studies and European Studies. She is particularly interested in the study of securitization processes and the development of the European Union’s internal security policies, especially those relating to asylum, migration and borders, as well as counter-terrorism. Sarah holds a PhD in International Politics from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, a Master of Arts in Russian and Eurasian Studies from the University of Leeds, as well as an MA in European Studies and a BA in Politics (International Relations) from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). Prior to taking up her post at UWE Bristol, Sarah was a Lecturer in International Security at the University of Salford, a Marie Curie Research Fellow at Sciences Po Paris, a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Dundee and an Associate Professor in International Affairs at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium).

Summary

This edited book (volume 1) focuses on exploring the global security issues associated with transnational unconventional organized crime. The book is divided into 2 sections:
Part 1: Unconventional Organized Crime Landscape Part 2: Cyber space and organised crime
Transnational unconventional organized crime pose a significant and growing threat to national and global security affecting public safety, human security, public health, economic and governmental stability. Not to mention the contributions transnational organized crime makes to terrorist financing. The adaptive nature of transnational organized crime group as well as terrorist and insurgent organizations makes them capable of innovating in real-time to exploit natural disasters, social crisis and global pandemics.  Currently with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, transnational organized crime has flourished taking advantage of the unprecedented opportunities for illicit activities. For example as reported in TRACIT (2020) : Worldwide reports indicate a surge in the availability and type of fraudulent medical products intended to exploit the fears of consumers, which includes illicit offerings of falsified versions of treatments such as Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin that will harm or kill already vulnerable patients. Joint operations by the World Customs Organization, Europol and Interpol have resulted in a significant increase in seizures of counterfeit and unauthorized face masks and hand sanitizers.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anthony J Masys (Editor), Christian Kaunert (Editor), Sarah Leonard (Editor), Anthony J Masys (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.11.2025
• EAN: 9783031964312
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3196431-2
• No. of pages: 275
• Illustrations: Approx. 275 p.
• Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Organisiertes Verbrechen, Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), auseinandersetzen, Organized crime, Law enforcement, International Security Studies, Transnational Crime, national security, Global security, Migration and Security, Ecological and Environmental Crime, Unconventional Crime, Border Security, Transnational Organized Crime