The fight against money laundering, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, cyber crime, and the promotion of the enhancement of judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters have been at the core of the G8's actions in this field since the 1990s. This book sheds light on the nature, structure and modus operandi of the G8's specific expertise on transnational organized crime from a sociological approach in order to understand the elaboration, production and diffusion of international norms and standards. It provides a detailed analysis of an under-researched aspect of international politics: the intensification of expert-level exchanges on the international stage over the enhanced cooperation against transnational organized crime that has led to an impressive elaboration of best practices and soft law recommendations. Very few studies have focused on the experts who determine these: who they are, what their socio-professional background is, and the nature and impact of their collective work in the global fight against organized crime.
Author(s): Amandine Scherrer
Series: Global Finance
Publisher: Ashgate
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 200
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures and Tables......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 When Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering Became Priorities on the G7’s Agenda......Page 18
2 From Drug Trafficking to Transnational Organized Crime......Page 32
3 The G8’s Involvement in the International Mobilization against Transnational Organized Crime......Page 46
4 The Creation of Expertise on Transnational Organized Crime within the G8 System......Page 60
5 The Structure and Organization of the Lyon Group......Page 72
6 Cooperation as the Imperative for Mobilizing against Transnational Organized Crime......Page 86
7 The Socialization of G8 Norms within the G8 Member States......Page 98
8 Dissemination of the Lyon Group’s Recommendations......Page 112
9 From the Lyon Group to the Lyon/Roma Group......Page 124
10 A Change of Priorities for the Lyon/Roma Group......Page 140
Conclusion......Page 154
Appendix 1: The Lyon Group’s Recommendations, 1996......Page 160
Appendix 2: G8 Recommendations on Transnational Crime, 2002......Page 168
Bibliography......Page 182
Index......Page 196
