Transnational organised crime and fragile states

This brief seeks to explain the fundamental errors and misconceptions which ensure that the fight against global crime, while scoring ever more arrests and interdictions, has failed to make headway against trafficking through fragile states. It concludes by listing a series of new policy areas that could

underpin a new approach. Above all, these emphasize reducing the receptivity

of fragile states to criminal enterprise, staunching violence, and ensuring the

gradual build-up of trust, probity and clean business.