A comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade Though mankind
has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has
changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal
economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of
illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as
Dark Commerce shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to
computers and social media. In this new world of illicit commerce,
which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal
and anonymized, and vast profits are made in short periods with
limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers.
Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and
globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of
illegal trade-the markets for narcotics and child pornography
online, the escalation of sex trafficking through web
advertisements, and the sale of endangered species for which
revenues total in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The illicit
economy exacerbates many of the world's destabilizing phenomena:
the perpetuation of conflicts, the proliferation of arms and
weapons of mass destruction, and environmental degradation and
extinction. Shelley explores illicit trade in tangible goods-drugs,
human beings, arms, wildlife and timber, fish, antiquities, and
ubiquitous counterfeits-and contrasts this with the damaging trade
in cyberspace, where intangible commodities cost consumers and
organizations billions as they lose identities, bank accounts,
access to computer data, and intellectual property. Demonstrating
that illicit trade is a business the global community cannot afford
to ignore and must work together to address, Dark Commerce
considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge.
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