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The Crime-Terror Continuum: Tracing the Interplay between Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism

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  • Tamara Makarenko

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Increasingly since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent decline of state sponsorship for terrorism, organised criminal activities have become a major revenue source for terrorist groups worldwide. Building on the precedent set by narco-terrorism, as it emerged in Latin America in the 1980s, the use of crime has become an important factor in the evolution of terrorism. As such, the 1990s can be described as the decade in which the crime-terror nexus was consolidated: the rise of transnational organised crime and the changing nature of terrorism mean that two traditionally separate phenomena have begun to reveal many operational and organisational similarities. Indeed, criminal and terrorist groups appear to be learning from one another, and adapting to each other's successes and failures, meaning that it is necessary to acknowledge, and to understand the crime-terror continuum to formulate effective state responses to these evolving, and periodically converging, threats.

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  • Tamara Makarenko, 2004. "The Crime-Terror Continuum: Tracing the Interplay between Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism," Global Crime, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 6(1), pages 129-145, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fglcxx:v:6:y:2004:i:1:p:129-145
    DOI: 10.1080/1744057042000297025
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