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Terrorism and Organized Crime: One or Two Challenges?

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Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building

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It has become common wisdom that terrorist groups and organized crime organizations are increasingly joining forces to challenge states and threaten human security worldwide. Policy makers and scholars alike claim that new and unconventional methods are needed to counter the existential risks that arise from the cooperation, convergence and merging of terrorism and organized crime. Thus, as the distinctions between terrorists and criminals fade so too must the distinctions between traditional measures fighting them. Since organized crime and terrorism have become one, a single comprehensive concept is required to counter it.

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  1. University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organization)

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  1. University of Graz, Austria

    Wolfgang Benedek (Professor of International law) (Professor of International law)

  2. University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organization) (Professor of International Organization)

  3. University of Belgrade Law School, Serbia

    Vojin Dimitrijević

  4. University of Tilburg, Netherlands

    Petrus van Duyne (Professor of Empirical Penal Science) (Professor of Empirical Penal Science)

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Daase, C. (2010). Terrorism and Organized Crime: One or Two Challenges?. In: Benedek, W., Daase, C., Dimitrijević, V., van Duyne, P. (eds) Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281479_4

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