Failed States

Crime, Corruption and Failed States

• Transparency International
• Boswell, N. “Independent Courts and a Free Media are Seen as Important Weapons to Fight Corruption,” Transparency International VOA News, 24 Oct. 2006.  [Radio/TV Interviews - link mid-page]
• Darby, J. (1999). “Custom of Fell Deed: Violence and Peace Processes.” 
• INTERPOL Group of Experts on Corruption (IGEC).
• Global Witness
• International Crisis Group
• Amnesty International
• UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). World Drug Report [archive]
• UNODC. Multimedia. [short videos on trafficking, corruption, drugs, aids]
• UN Economic & Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific: “What is Good Governance”
• McConnell, K. (2006). “Trafficking an ‘Egregious’ Form of Slavery, USAID Official Says,” USINFO, US Department of State, Aug. 15.
• US Department of Justice: Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section
• Maitra, R. (2005). “Trouble on India’s Islands,” Asia Times, Feb. 11. [Tamil Tigers]
• BBC: “Colombia’s most powerful rebels,” Sept. 19, 2003. [FARC]
• Lyons, J.A. Jr. (2006). “Kosovo consternation,” The Washington Times, May 9.  [KLA]
• Wallace, B. (2001). “Drugs fuel terror campaign. Opium trade keeps Taliban in business, experts charge,” San Francisco Chronicle Oct. 4. [Chechen. KLA, Taliban]
• Mobutu Sese-Seko.  [DRC]
• Sani Abacha  [Nigeria]
• Joseph Estrada  [Philippines]
• PBS: Task Force Report. (1997). “Russian Organized Crime,” Center for Strategic & International Studies