Discussion with author Misha Glenny on Global Crime

Start: Apr 18 2008 - 10:30am

End: Apr 18 2008 - 12:00pm

Event Description:

Misha Glenny on Global Crime
Dear Colleague:

The Stimson Center’s Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project cordially invites you to attend a discussion with Misha Glenny at the Henry L. Stimson Center on April 18, 2008 from 10:30 am to 12 pm.

Mr. Glenny will discuss his latest book, McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld, which makes clear how organized crime feeds off the poverty of the developing world, how it exploits new technology in the forms of cybercrime and identity theft, and how both global crime and terror are fueled by an identical source: the triumphant material affluence of the West. Mr. Glenny won the Sony Award for his coverage of the Yugoslavian crisis. He is the author of The Balkans: Nationalism, War and the Great Powers, 1804-1999, The Fall of Yugoslavia (won the Overseas Press Club Award in 1993 for Best Book on Foreign Affairs), and The Rebirth Of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy.

The Regional Voices: Transnational Challenges project seeks to gain insight into, and understanding about, how experts from the Middle East, Asia, and Northeast Africa think about emerging non-traditional security issues.

We hope you can join us.

Please RSVP to Duaa Elzeney by April 15, 2008 via e-mail at delzeney@stimson.org or phone at (202) 464-2665. Please include name, title, and institution.
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