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by Vanessa Neumann


  Winslow, Don

  World Bank

  World Customs Organization

  World Health Organization (WHO)

  definition of counterfeit medicine

  Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)

  International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Task Force (IMPACT)

  Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade

  World Trade Center bombing (1993)

  World Trade Organization

  World War I

  Yakuza (Japanese crime syndicate)

  Yamani, Abu Bassir al-

  Yemen

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Zarqawi, Abu Musab al-

  Zawahiri, Ayman Al-

  About the Author

  DR. VANESSA NEUMANN is president of Asymmetrica, a consultancy on strategies for corporate clients and governments to dismantle illicit trade. Dr. Neumann served for four years on the OECD’s Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade and holds fellowships at Yale University, Columbia University, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Acknowledgments

  From “A Smuggler’s Song,” by Rudyard Kipling

  Introduction

    1:  A Simple Transaction

    2:  Learning About Crime, Terror, and Corruption

    3:  “A Little Fun”

    4:  Filling in the Puzzle

    5:  Sheikh, Colonel, Trafficker, Terrorist

    6:  The War Games Begin

    7:  Khans, Bags, and Triads

    8:  Up in Smoke

    9:  Bad Sport

  10:  Trading in Sickness and Violence

  11:  It’s All About the Benjamins

  12:  Crime and Terror Converge

  13:  The Stories We Tell

  Photographs

  Selected Bibliography

  Notes

  Index

  About the Author

  Copyright

  BLOOD PROFITS. Copyright © 2017 by Vanessa Neumann. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  First Edition: December 2017

 

 

 


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