McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld | Misha Glenny

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	McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld Misha Glenny Knopf, 2008 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Global Disorder

Glenny dutifully documents, in exquisite detail, the rise of transnational criminal organizations in every global region.

Simple formula: morally neutral global economic platform + economic/social distress = the rapid proliferation and unabated growth of transnational criminal organizations.

Without a fundamental revision of global governance (not very likely), we will soon become very familiar with local variants of the stories he documents.

John Robb, author of: Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization

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Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Glenny's book is how well he traces the births of organized crime groups, what enables them and why they do what they do. This book isn't a comprehensive manual of all organized crime in the world for Interpol use as some may expect, but a tour through environments that spawn criminal groups. After describing the scams, crimes, how they're executed and how the criminals make a profit, he traces the groups' origins, analyzes their social environment, why their service is in demand and what keeps them in business (no real rule of law, people want to buy their wares/services no matter what, etc.). If you wan to know where and why organized crime gets its steam and its profits, this is definitely a book for your reading list.

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engaging book

This is a very engaging book, so well written that it seems like fiction - but sadly its not. Are you perplexed by the glitzy storefronts and countless luxury cars on the city streets of Kiev and Moscow? Are you curious about how guns get into the hands of warlords in Africa or where the demand for slave labor could possible come from? Do you wonder how the fall of the Soviet Union really played out? This is a riveting account of our alter world - the one thriving and evolving in the shadows of mainstream economies and governments - and how all of the nefarious activites around the globe tie together and relate to each other. It does get a bit repetitive towards the end of the book, but you still feel the urge to read on and finish. I strongly recommend it.

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Anecdotal Information

Very good read with tons of information but just could not shake the feeling like the book was more a collection of stories told that relied too much on primary sources to recount what they knew than any overarching investigative effort. The stories in their singularity are true, especially those about Eastern Europe, but I am not so sure they fit as part of a bigger puzzle; the author sounds too much like a Friedman on some issues and a union leader on others. The good is that book is definitely eye opening and a must read to get an idea of the criminal world.

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Great book on global criminal enterprises

This is a global journey through organized crime. The first thing I thought of when I read this book was "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman. This book succeeds in every regard where Friedman's book fails. Glenny shows how criminal organizations take advantage of corrupt and inefficient systems to create smooth enterprise. Crime all over the globe is profiled, from Russia to India. Rather than reading like an encyclopedia, Glenny's anecdotes show the insidious nature of global criminals and the large part they play in the world's economy.

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