ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the shift in G7 discourse from the fight against drug trafficking and the laundering of its proceeds to the fight against transnational crime in its broader sense. It describes organized crime, Susan Strange, in collaboration with Letizia Paoli, describes the forging of a network of links between criminal organizations throughout the world, allowing alliances to thus be established between the Chinese Triads and the Colombian drug cartels or between the Calabrian Ndrangheta and the Camorra from Campania. The "transnational organized crime" transcended crime management within the national framework and became a feature of US foreign policy. In particular, there is evidence that US control techniques, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which had been adopted in the United States in 1970 and gave the police and intelligence services increased powers, particularly with regard to surveillance used as a basis for discussion at the Naples Conference.
