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Event

Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy

Mon, December 12th, 2005

Washington, D.C.

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Carnegie's President Jessica T. Mathews led a conversation between the audience and Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím, SAIS Professor Francis Fukuyama, and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius on the main thesis of Naím's important new book Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats are Hijacking the Global Economy. Naím argues that traffickers are changing the world—transforming economies, reshaping politics, and capturing governments. In his view the pursuit of illicit profits is as powerful a driver of political upheaval and international instability as terrorism, and black-market networks are stealthily transforming global politics and economies.

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Event Speakers

Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Distinguished Fellow
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Moisés Naím
Distinguished Fellow
Moisés Naím
Francis Fukuyama
Nonresident Scholar, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program
Francis Fukuyama
David Ignatius

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Event Speakers

Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Distinguished Fellow

Mathews is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Carnegie’s president for 18 years.

Moisés Naím

Distinguished Fellow

Moisés Naím is a distinguished fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a best-selling author, and an internationally syndicated columnist.

Francis Fukuyama

Nonresident Scholar, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program

Francis Fukuyama is a nonresident scholar in Carnegie’s Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, where his research focuses on democratization and international political economy.

David Ignatius

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