Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 05/2008

Crushing Crime in South East Europe: A Struggle of Domestic, Regional and European Dimensions

May 2003

Austrian National Defence Academy

Abstract

CONTENTS

Predrag Jurekoviæ and Frederic Labarre
Preface

PANEL I: South East Europe - Chief Exporter of Organized Crime in Europe - a Cliché? Types and Forms of Crime and Criminality.

Sebouh Baghdoyan
Drug Trafficking in South East Europe

Josef Nothdurfter
Smuggling and Weapons Trafficking in South East Europe: the EUPM Experience

PANEL II: Are Crime and Corruption Jeopardizing Political Reform and Democratisation in South East Europe? - Selected Country Studies

Ivan Djordjevic
The Current Security Situation in Serbia and the Aftermath of the Assassination of the Prime Minister

Elvedina Omeroviæ
Terrorism, Violence and Organized Crime in Sand¾ak

Eno Trimcev
Organized Crime in Albania: An Unconventional Security Threat

Ayse Nilufer Narli
Human Smuggling and Migration of Illegal Labour to Turkey

Liubovi Revenko
Trafficking in Women and Children: Moldova: Myths and Reality

PANEL III: The Impact of Crime on the Regional Stabilization Processes in South East Europe

Duska Anastasijevic
The Impact of Crime on the Regional Stabilisation in Southern Serbia and Kosovo

Tamara Duffey
A Grassroots Approach to Combatting Organised Crime and Building Peace in South Eastern Europe: Opportunities for the Kosovo Police Service

Sebastian von Münchow
Some Reflections on the Stability Pact Initiative to Fight Organized Crime

Dennis J.D. Sandole
Combatting Crime in Southeastern Europe: An Integrated, Coordinated, Multilevel Approach

PANEL IV: Opening Up Or Cordoning Off: The European Union and South East Europe -
A Struggle Over Organised Crime

Josip Kregar
Organized Crime as a Threat to Democracy

Henriette Riegler
Contextualizing Criminality and Security in South East Europe

Istvan Gyarmati
Security Sector Reform as a Contribution to Crime Prevention in South East Europe