ABSTRACT
Practitioners recognized links between terrorism and organized crime earlier than scholars. After the end of the Cold War, such links were noted increasingly often. In time, an understanding of the phenomenon of convergence between organized crime and terrorism emerged. This chapter reviews existing literature on the convergence of organized crime and terrorism and suggests that links are not limited to contested territories beyond the effective control of a state. Terrorism is one form of ideologically motivated organized crime, and convergence between this and other forms of crime occurs in Western society as well, including within Russian-speaking networks that combine organized crime and jihadist terrorism.
