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Terrorism, Crime, Trafficking
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Concept review What are the major concepts for this class we’ve discussed so far? What terms have we discussed in class thus far? (blog post) What is the most important term for you? Why? Come up with a graphical representation (chart, Venn diagram, concept map, etc.)
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“Logic” of violence (from may 22)
In order to “win” what does the state need? The rebel? Insurgency and the rational peasant Strategies Betrayal- turning in your rebel neighbor Passive tolerance Covert but active Feeding rebels Active, overt support Insert a map of your country.
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Non-state actors Nothing new under the sun?
Why are non-state actors hard to deal with? From both a national perspective and an international perspective?
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Trafficking Globalization Trafficking = illegal trade Dutch tulips
Two edged sword Trafficking = illegal trade Can be legal or illegal goods traded illegally Dutch tulips Today- #1 Oil, #2 drugs, #3 humans, #4 cultural artifacts
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drugs 200 M illicit drug users Worth about $400 B a year What to do?
Destroy poor farmer’ coco plants & poppies? Why are drugs a security issue? FARC in Colombia
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Drugs as a security issue
about 30K people died in Mexico due to drug violence FARC (Colombia) Use drug $$$ to buy weapons, better armed than police About 300 M a year 2 M Colombians displaced (population of 38M) More than any other state besides Sudan and Congo 2009 Nicaraguan navy seized 2.4 tones of cocaine Worth $80M
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Drugs as a security issue (cont.)
60% of Afghanistan’s GDP is drug trade 2009 accounted for 79% of global opium production Health issues Intravenous drug use and HIV Counterfeit drugs 28$M industry in US (2008) Poisoning Antibiotic resistant bacteria 100 Panamanians died from cold medicine
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Weapons trafficking Not illegal in and of itself
Viktor Bout “merchant of death” 700 surface to air missiles, military helicopters, planes, guns to FARC Caught trying to sell UAVs Afghanistan is a source for lots of arms after Soviets pulled out Stinger air missiles No one knows where about 4k of Iraq’s pre-war arsenal is $5K for a shoulder to air missile Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Irish Republican Amy
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Human trafficking Is 6-800,000 people per year
Sex slavery is a big part 80% people trafficked in the US are female 12.3 million in some sort of forced labor International Labor Organization- $31.6 B annually Is human trafficking a security issue?
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Trafficking cultural artifacts
The Elgin Marbles Originally part of the Pantheon in Greece 1801 Ottoman Empire grants British ambassador permission to remove 1816: Brits buy it from Lord Elgin and put them in the British Museum
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Nazi Germany
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2013 Auction of Hopi Masks in France
US law prohibits the sale of Native American religious objects UNESCO laws only protect against looting after 1970 Despite protests, French auction house continued with bidding 70 masks, $1.2 million dollars
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L: Last month, Mexico unsuccessfully attempted to halt Sotheby’s in Paris from auctioning off ancient statues R: Cambodia is currently suing museums in the US for statues stolen during the Cambodian Civil War ( )
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Art of the steal How do these examples reflect power?
What barriers exist for returning these artifacts? How should we determine ownership? Why fight so hard to keep the artifacts? -1,000 + elephant tusks seized in Malaysia; ivory up $1K per pound in some places -
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Global responses to trafficking
How have international organizations dealt with trafficking? Do these issues require a global response? What barriers exist? All trafficking is related If you can by a surface to air missile, you can probably buy a woman
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