Historique
Article de Périodique
(I)llicit chains: Some new hypotheses regarding a changing global cocaine market (2025)
Auteur(s) :
LIEN, N. ;
FELTRAN, G.
Année :
2025
Page(s) :
20-34
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Discipline :
MAR (Marchés / Markets)
Thésaurus géographique
INTERNATIONAL
;
AMERIQUE DU SUD
Thésaurus mots-clés
COCAINE
;
MARCHE DE LA DROGUE
;
TRAFIC INTERNATIONAL
;
MONDIALISATION
;
EVOLUTION
;
PRODUIT ILLICITE
;
ORGANISATION CRIMINELLE
;
TRANSPORT MARITIME
Autres mots-clés
Résumé :
International cocaine trafficking from South America has increased significantly over the past decade. Based on mixed-methods research, we hypothesize that this change has been driven primarily by the globalization of its logistics, which has led to relevant technical and political changes along the value chain. Today's global criminal logistics connect a wider variety of producers and retailers, ensuring a market without monopoly and monopsony, although very few transnational criminal groups control the center of the value chain. Their cooperation results in a virtuous circle for illicit accumulation, in which the constant improvement in productivity in South America also leads to an increase in consumer demand in Europe and, more recently, in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. We used a mixed-methods approach to relationally analyze coherent changes in the cocaine value chain in Latin American, African, and European countries. [Author's abstract]
Affiliation :
National University of Cordoba-UNC/Aconcagua University-UDA, Argentina
CEE Sciences Po, France
CEE Sciences Po, France