MERCHANTS OF MEN: HOW JIHADISTS AND ISIS TURNED KIDNAPPING AND REFUGEE TRAFFICKING INTO A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS
Book ID/图书代码： 12070015B84384
English Summary/英文概要： From the bestselling author of The Islamist Phoenix and Rogue Economics.
Every day, a powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. A new breed of criminals, risen from the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and from the fiasco of the Arab Spring, controls it. Intertwined with jihadist armed organizations such al Qaeda in the Maghreb, in the early 2000s the merchants of men prospered by smuggling cocaine from West Africa and kidnapping Westerners. More recently, the destabilization of Syria and Iraq coupled with the rise of ISIS offered them new business opportunities in the Middle East, from selling Western hostages to
jihadist groups to trafficking millions of refugees.
Overall, in these regions, the kidnapping industry is bigger than the illegal drug trade and worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Merchants of Men is based on exclusive access to hostage negotiators actively involved in ransom negotiations
and rescue missions, counterterrorism experts, members of security services, and former hostages, among many others. The reader will discover that the protocols of prevention and rescue change according to the type of abduction and the designated targets, and will come to know firsthand the range of experiences of kidnapping victims. Above all Merchants of Men will unveil the shocking economic interdependency between this business and the trafficking of migrants and refugees to Europe.
Will the West once again reap the benefits of the political chaos it has sown in its own backyard? From colonization to the advent of “friendly” dictatorial regimes, today’s fast-aging European nations are buyers on the refugee market. New workers are needed, and the merchants of men are supplying them. But only skilled, highly educated refugees are wanted. As a tsunami of migrants and refugees floods Europe,new questions almost too numerous to count must be answered.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者著有畅销书《伊斯兰凤凰》和《破坏性的经济学》。每天，欧洲都在进行着强大而又复杂的地下交易，成千上万的难民被运送到地中海沿岸。911事件后西方政治混乱中兴起的一股新势力犯罪集团控制着这种交易。与诸如基地组织等武装力量相交织，21世纪初，靠着从西非走私可卡因及绑架西方人，人贩们的业务蒸蒸日上。近期，叙利亚和伊拉克不稳定的局势，加上ISIS的兴起，为他们在中东地区提供了新的商机，包括将西方人质贩卖给伊斯兰圣战组织以及非法交易难民等。
整体而言，该地区的绑架业务超过非法毒品交易，每年交易额可达数百亿美元。本书具备人质谈判员、反恐怖主义专家、安全机构专员、前人质等独家渠道。读者会发现，预防及营救的协议根据绑架类型及指定目标的不同而不同，并且可以了解遭绑架的受害者的一手经历。最重要的是，本书揭露了这项业务与非法交易移民和难民之间令人震惊的经济依赖性。
西方社会是否会又一次受益于其自身点燃的政治战火？从殖民主义到“亲民”独裁政权的出现，当今的欧洲各国正在迅速老龄化，而他们正是难民市场上的买家。市场需要新的劳工，人贩们便向市场提供劳力，但只有具备技能且受过高等教育的难民会受到青睐。随着移民潮和难民潮涌入欧洲，一系列新的问题有待解决。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：Loretta Napoleoni Interview:
http://www.wnyc.org/story/the-leonard-lopate-show-2014-12-02/
"Loretta Napoleoni has cast a light on the disturbing evolution of the criminal and jihadist kidnapping rings in the Middle East, a multimillion-dollar-a-year business, to the even more lucrative trafficking of migrants to Europe. The traffickers extort as much as $100 million a month from tens of thousands of desperate families. These traffickers are our creation. They are the logical outcome of industrial death and destruction. They are the product of failed states and widespread chaos. We are responsible. And the insatiable lusts we have spawned among these human predators will not end with kidnapping and human trafficking alone. This is the new world order."—Chris Hedges, author of Wages of Rebellion and former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times
About the Author/作者介绍： LORETTA NAPOLEONI曾著有国际畅销书《伊斯兰凤凰》、《破坏性的经济学》等。作为反恐怖主义融资集团的主席，Napoleoni将各地政要汇集在一起，开创了一套打击恐怖主义融资网络的新策略。她目前居住在伦敦和美国蒙大纳州。
LORETTA NAPOLEONI is the author of international bestsellers,The Islamist Phoenix: The Islamic State (ISIS) and the Redrawing of the Middle East, Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality, and Terror
Incorporated: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism. As chairperson of the counter-terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, Napoleoni brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks. She lives in London and Montana, USA.
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