Table of Contents

1. The ABCs of a Comparative Economic History of Organized Crime: A National and Transnational Approach Part 1: Europe 2. Italian Mafias 3. Russian Mafias 4. Vignette: Albanian Mafia Part 2: North America 5. US Mafia 6. Mexican Drug Cartels 7. Vignette: Organized Crime in Canada Part 3: Central America, South America, and the Caribbean Basin 8. Colombian Drug Cartels 9. Gangs of the Caribbean 10. Vignette: Organized Crime in Cuba Part 4: AfricSoa 11. Resource Wars 12. Somali Piracy 13. Vignette: International Trugs, Trafficking, Organized Crime, and Terrorism in North and West Africa Part 5: Asia and Western Pacific 14. Triads 15. Yakuza 16. Vignette: International Drugs Trafficking, Organized sCrime and Terrorism in Afghanistan. Bibliography

About the Author

Dennis M. P. McCarthy is an Associate Professor Emeritus of History, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.