Lines, Flows, and Transnational Crime: Toward a Revised Approach to Countering the Underworld of Globalization

CINA and Mason’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) welcomed Alan Bersin, a renowned authority on transnational crime and international relations. His presentation proposed a new framework for combating transnational criminal activity. Mr. Bersin argues that Global illicit flows perpetrated by organized crime, in the interstices of lawful trade and travel, represent the principal security threat in today’s world, and that the Westphalian system of nation-states is ill equipped to confront it.