The nature of drug-trafficking networks

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Volumn 97, Issue 618, 1998, Pages 154-159

  Williams, Phil ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Graduate School of Public and International Affairs   (United States)

^c Journal Transnational Organized Crime ^*

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References (6)

1. See David Ronfeldt, Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks: A Framework about Societal Evolution (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1996).
2. Mark Granovetter, "The Strength of Weak Ties," American Journal of Sociology, vol. 78 (1973).
3. This idea is further developed in Ronald S. Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992).
4. Francis J. Ianni, Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974), p. 281.
5. Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues (Geopolitical Drug Watch), Annual Report 1995-1996, September 1997 on the OGD home page (http://www.ogd.org).
6. See John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, eds., in Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age (Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 1997).