ABSTRACT
Since the 1990s, expert communities and policymakers have argued that the traditional distinction between organised crime and terrorist groups has been narrowing, and that violent non-state actors are increasingly linked in an emerging ‘crime-terror nexus’.1 This concept has highlighted some important linkages between organised crime and terrorist and militant groups, but by framing a complex problem within such a simple, binary construction, the idea has tended to exclude analysis of the full spectrum of relationships and networks that constitute contemporary criminal gangs and terrorist networks.
