{"title":"Louise I. Shelley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouise I. Shelley\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling exploration of complex global issues, focusing on the intersections of crime, governance, and economics. Her works provide deep insights into the mechanisms of illicit trade and the impact of dark commerce on international stability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect rigorous analysis grounded in thorough research, making her books essential for those interested in contemporary global affairs and security studies. Her writing is both informative and accessible, ideal for students and professionals within \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dark-commerce-by-louise-i-shelley-9780691170183","title":"Dark Commerce","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive look at the world of illicit trade. Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade in both legitimate and illegal economies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as \u003cem\u003eDark Commerce\u003c\/em\u003e shows, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this new world of illicit commerce, which benefits states and diverse participants, trade is impersonal and anonymised, and vast profits are made in short periods with limited accountability to sellers, intermediaries, and purchasers. Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalisation fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade—the markets for narcotics and child pornography online, the escalation of sex trafficking through web advertisements, and the sale of endangered species for which revenues total in the hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe illicit economy exacerbates many of the world's destabilising phenomena: the perpetuation of conflicts, the proliferation of arms and weapons of mass destruction, and environmental degradation and extinction. Shelley explores illicit trade in tangible goods—drugs, human beings, arms, wildlife, timber, fish, antiquities, and ubiquitous counterfeits—and contrasts this with the damaging trade in cyberspace, where intangible commodities cost consumers and organisations billions as they lose identities, bank accounts, access to computer data, and intellectual property.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDemonstrating that illicit trade is a business the global community cannot afford to ignore and must work together to address, \u003cem\u003eDark Commerce\u003c\/em\u003e considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470378352876,"sku":"9780691170183","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691170183-dark-commerce.jpg?v=1775217761"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/louise-i-shelley.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}