Includes bibliographical references and index.

An introduction to transnational threats / Kimberley L. Thachuk -- Narcoterrorism : a definitional and operational transnational challenge / André D. Hollis -- Human trafficking and smuggling / Francis Miko -- Addressing the nuclear smuggling threat / David Smigielski -- Transnational crime and small arms trafficking and proliferation / Boris Saavedra -- Balkan trafficking in historical perspective / Esther A. Bacon -- Drug smuggling in central Eurasia / Svante Cornell -- Smuggling and trafficking in Africa / Audra Grant -- Chinese crime organizations as transnational enterprises / Anny Wong -- Japanese trafficking and smuggling / Rollie Lal -- South Asian organized crime and linkages to terrorist networks / Rollie Lal -- Weak states and porous borders : smuggling along the Andean Ridge / Richard L. Millett -- Smuggling and the Caribbean : tainting paradise throughout history / James L. Zackrison -- The rise and diversification of human smuggling and trafficking into the United States / Louise I. Shelley -- Implications for U.S. national security / Rhea Siers.