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Bad Company: Conversations
About The New Global
Underworld with Mark Galeotti,
Academic Chair, Clinical Professor,
NYU-SCPS Center For Global Affairs
[14] scps.nyu.edu/cga
Mark Galeotti
Crime pays, and criminals are actors on the world stage
whose powerful (if often hidden) role in the modern world has fully yet to be understood.
Criminals run globe-spanning businesses that supply narcotics, trafficked people, and
illegal services. They arm insurgents and destabilize governments. They bypass national
and international regulations on everything from financial transactions to environmental
standards. Professor Mark Galeotti, CGA academic chair and an expert on transnational and
organized crime, hosts a series of conversations with scholars and security analysts that
illuminate the workings of the global underworld: what it does, how it does it, and what this
means for us all.
DARKMARKET:
CYBERCRIME, CYBERWARFARE AND CYBERESPIONAGE
Misha Glenny, Journalist; Former Correspondent, BBC
The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too
are the dangers. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work, and live
online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to
protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent
about our personal security—sharing our thoughts, beliefs, and the details
of our daily lives with anyone who might care to relieve us of them?
Glenny, formerly of the BBC, is an investigative journalist and broadcaster
who first tackled the interconnections of the global underworld in his
McMafia (2008), and has most recently written DarkMarket: cyberthieves,
cybercops and you (2011), drawing on interviews with hackers, victims
and law enforcers alike. He will discuss the challenges of this new virtual
underworld and what—if anything—can be done about them.
A DEADLY NEXUS:
CRIME, CORRUPTION AND CONFLICT IN AFGHANISTAN
Colin Clarke, project associate, RAND Corporation
Afghanistan is now the longest running war in American history.
Following 10 years of American military intervention in the country, it
still ranks among the poorest and weakest states in the world. At the
core of this instability is a nexus of crime, corruption, and conflict that
intersect to undermine the legitimacy of the government while at the
same time emboldens the insurgents who seek to overthrow it. Clarke,
an alumnus of the CGA’s Masters program, is a project associate for the
RAND Corporation who spent time embedded with Coalition forces in
Afghanistan. He is currently writing his dissertation on the importance of
resources and leadership in insurgency at the University of Pittsburgh’s
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA).
Monday
February 13
6.30–7.45 p.m.
Tuesday
March 6
6.30–7.45 p.m.