State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administrationby James Risen

✍ Scribed by Review by: Lawrence D. Freedman

• Book ID: 125242006
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 354 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20031988

✦ Synopsis

Traveling in Russia, China, eastern Europe, and Latin America, Naim, the editor of Foreign Policy, realized that "there was much going on in those regions ... that we could never understand unless we paid more attention to the role of criminal activities in shaping decisions, institutions and outcomes." He might have well added to his list of regions some of the Middle East, much of central and eastern Asia, and almost all of Africa. Terrorism, gunrunning, smuggling, corruption, and organized crime have been with us since time immemorial, but today's threat is different in both scale and scope, thanks to