AY Crime, Law & Social Change 36: 427-429, 2001. CONTENTS VOLUME 36 2001 Volume 36 Nos 1-2 Special Issue: The World Geopolitics of Drugs, 1998/1999 Guest Editors: Alain Labrousse and Laurent Laniel Revised by Alan A. Block Acknowledgements List of Maps Foreword by Alan A. Block INTRODUCTION How to use the annual report Trends for 1998/1999; The globalization of the trafficking economy PART ONE: GLOBAL PROBLEMS Money laundering in the South: The modernity of tradition 33-40 41-43 Offshore banking: Center of the economic world’s attention 44-51 Opium problems: Estimation of illegal crops and diversion of legal crops PART TWO: ASIA Central Asia 53-61 Country reports 61-102 Afghanistan 61-65 Pakistan 65-69 Nepal 69-72 India 73-78 Burma 78-84 China 84-88 Vietnam 89-93 Cambodia 93-98 MAPS 1-4 99-102 PART THREE: EUROPE Analyses 103-140 Italy: Evolving mafia and antimafia forces 103-111 News from the Italian mafias 111-116 Spain: Drug gateway to Europe 117-124 ETA, the police and drugs: Ambiguity in the fight against terrorism 124-129 The cannabis market in Paris 129-133 428 Ayahuasca: From the Amazon to the urban jungles Country reports Turkey Russia Lithuania Poland Czech Republic Rumania MAP 5 PART FOUR: THE AMERICAS Analyses The profitable poor: The economic and social impact of the war “on drugs” in the United States Mexico: Laundering the political system Colombia: War on drugs or on rebellion? Argentina: The legacy of ten years of Peronist government Bolivia: “Success Story” of the war on drugs Country reports 23 oD Peru 213 Chile 3-217 Venezuela 217-222 Trinidad and Tobago —226 Dominican Republic — Haiti —230 Canada 30-234 MAPS 6-11 240 PART FIVE: AFRICA Analyses 263 The geopolitical stakes of khat in Kenya 241-246 The cannabis industry in Lesotho 246-256 South Africa: Rainbow Mafia becomes entrenched 256-259 The Rainbow Mafia 259-263 Country reports 264-283 Algeria 264-268 Nigeria 268-271 Benin 271-275 Congo 275-279 Mauritius 279-283 MAPS 12-13 283-284 Volume 36 No.3 Comparing cultures, comparing crime: Challenges, prospects and problems for a global criminology / Susanne Karstedt 285-308 Social change, crime, and culture: The defense of provocation / William I. Torry 309-325 Garden of Grand Vision: Economic life in a flophouse complex Harbin, China 1940/ Kathryn Meyer Volume 36 No. 4 Special section: Corruption and Democracy Editorial / R. Williams Access, accountability and authority: Corruption and the democratic process / Mark Philp 357-377 Democratic transitions and forms of corruption / J. Moran 379-393 Corruption, democracy and the World Bank / Heather Marquette 395-407 Filing for corruption: Transparency, openness and record-keeping / Piers Cain, Alan Doig, Rachel Flanary & Kimberly Barata 409-425 Volume Contents/Author index 427-429 AUTHOR INDEX VOLUME 36 2001 Barata, K., 409 Karstedt, S., 285 Philp, M., 357 Block, A.A., 20 Labrousse, A., 21 Torry, W.I., 309 Cain, P., 409 Laniel, L., 21 Williams, R., 353 Doig, A., 409 Marquette, H., 3 Meyer, K., 327 Flanary, R., 409 Moran, J., 379