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Inside the Global Criminal Underworld -- with Misha Glenny
Event Date
Location
- World Affairs Council Auditorium
Address
- 312 Sutter Street
Second Floor
San Francisco, California 94108
Misha Glenny, Former Central Europe Correspondent, BBC World Service; Author, The Fall of Yugoslavia and The Balkans
Misha Glenny was born in 1958 and educated at Bristol University and Charles University in Prague. His coverage of the fall of Communism in 1989-90 was widely acclaimed, and led to the writing of his first book, The Rebirth of History. During the Yugoslav crisis of the early 1990s he was the Central Europe correspondent for the BBC World Service. In 1993 he won a Sony Award for his coverage of Yugoslavia. The Fall of Yugoslavia was published in 1992 and has been in print ever since. The Balkans was published by Granta Books in November 1999.
 From human trafficking in Bulgaria to elaborate Internet frauds in Nigeria, how has globalization and new technology influenced organized crime? While the political upheaval following the demise of communism in Eastern Europe and easy flow of money and people to the West certainly provided the perfect opportunity for the underworld’s shadow economy to flourish, what are some of the less familiar aspects of global crime? How does organized crime feed off poverty in the developing world and how is it fueled by the material affluence of the West? To trace the recent growth of organized crime, award-winning author Misha Glenny joins the Council to discuss his new book McMafia. A former BBC World correspondent and regularly consulted by U.S. and European governments on the Balkans, Glenny traveled the globe and interviewed police, victims, politicians, and members of organized crime syndicates to shed light on this confusing world.
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