6 December 2012

Global Governance and the Challenge of Transnational Organized Crime

The Role of the Constructive Powers

This paper represents a conference report on questions surrounding transnational organized crime (TOC) and policy responses to it. It includes the conference agenda and participant bios, and presents the principal findings of the conference, concluding that: the current geographical breadth, level of sophistication and broad array of markets and activities that transnational organized criminals are involved in is unprecedented; there is concern about TOC among all the countries represented at the conference; organized crime has the potential to become a national security threat; outside help can only do so much to combat TOC; the complete elimination of TOC is not realistic; and strong leadership is required to make this issue a policy priority.

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