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Introduction to the nexus between organized crime and terrorism / Cyrille Fijnaut, Letizia Paoli and Jan Wouters

Part I: Literature review and conceptualization

Taking stock of the literature on the nexus between organized crime and terrorism / Letizia Paoli and Cyrille Fijnaut

Conceptualizing the nexus between organized crime and terrorism / Letizia Paoli and Cyrille Fijnaut

Part II: Transfer of resources

Criminal pasts, terrorist futures? : jihadist recruits in Western Europe / Peter R. Neumann and Rajan Basra

Terrorists acquisition of firearms and explosives : criminal, legal and grey sources / Toine Spapens and Nils Duquet

The organized crime-terrorism nexus and its funding / Michael Levi

Part III: European case studies

The nexus between organized crime and terrorism, and the attacks in Paris and Brussels in 2015 and 2016 / Cyrille Fijnaut

Assessing the involvement in organized crime of jihadists from the Netherlands / Anton Weenink, Melvin R.J. Soudijn and Rudie J.M. Neve

Legal and law enforcement implications arizing from the organized crime-terrorism nexus in Northern Ireland / Tom Obokata

To what extent was Basque terrorist group ETA involved in a nexus with organized crime? : an economic analysis / Mikel Buesa and Thomas Baumert

Sweden : violent extremism and organized crime / Lars Korsell

Part IV: Non-European case studies

The crime-terror nexus in Syria and Iraq / Christina Steenkamp

The nexus of organized crime and terror in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Matthew Phillips and Shelby Davis

Largely fleeting and hardly convergent : Libya's crime-terror nexus / Mark Micallef and Matt Herbert

The terrorism-organized crime nexus in the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria / Freedom C. Onuoha

Is there any nexus between terrorism and organized crime in Mexico? / Luis Astorga

Terrorism and organized crime in Colombia / Gustavo Duncan, Santiago Sosa and Jose Antonio Fortou

Part V: International policies

Responding to the crime-terror nexus: the international level / Christophe Paulussen and Colin P. Clarke

The nexus between organized crime and terrorism : policy responses from the European Union and the Council of Europe / Thomas Van Poecke and Jan Wouters

One, none, multiple nexuses between organized crime and terrorism and the challenges of their control / Letizia Paoli, Cyrille Fijnaut and Jan Wouters.

Terrorism > European Union countries.

Organized crime > European Union countries.

Terrorism > Finance > Law and legislation.

Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation.

Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies.