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NEFA Report: The Criminal/Terrorist Nexus and Its Pipelines

By Douglas Farah

The NEFA Foundation has just published a paper looking at the criminal-terrorist nexus and the concept of "pipelines" to help frame new ways of looking at the threats and opportunities posed by the twin phenomena of global integration and global disintegration. The paper examines different types of failed and failing states and how they are used by both transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups to further their own ends, threatening not only our national security but our economic viability. In a rapidly-changing world, the we still suffer from a "failure of imagination" in assessing the risks non-state actors pose.

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