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7 Trends Org. Crime 1 (2001-2002)

handle is hein.journals/trndorgc7 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITOR'S COMMENTARY This first issue of Volume 7 of Trends in Organized Crime reflects our focus upon a mix of original studies, important government reports, research notes, and book reviews. The publication of Janine R. Wedel's major study of Cor- ruption and Organized Crime in Post-Communist States: New Ways of Mani- festing Old Patterns is another coup for Trends. It provides us with further compelling evidence of the changing face of organized crime, and of the many and varied forms that face can assume in different countries and societ- ies. The research reported here was conducted while Dr. Wedel was the Ed A. Hewett Fellow of the National Council for Eurasian and East European Re- search. One of the requirements of that fellowship was that the U.S. Depart- ment of Justice host the recipient to help ensure access and entree to federal agencies dealing with transnational organized crime, and to enhance the prac- tical and policy-relevant value and use of the ensuing research. As the Direc- tor of the International Center of the National Institute of Justice at the time, I convinced NIJ to host Dr. Wedel. A very fruitful collaboration thus began in 1999, and continues today, since Professor Wedel is currently an International Visiting Fellow at NIJ. The Wedel report, published here in its entirety after undergoing a rigorous peer-review, is built on the expanding literature (mostly ethnographic mate- rial) dealing with social organization in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It draws upon joint studies and interviews with analysts in Central and Eastern Europe (including the former Yugoslavia), Russia, Ukraine, and Central Asia. Dr. Wedel specifically visited Poland, Russia, and Ukraine for extended periods during the course of her research. Some of her findings also derive from a Eurasia Foundation-funded project on governance in three Russian cities, of which she was principal investigator. In addition, she collaborated with the Social Development Group of the World Bank, the Center for the Study of Transnational Organized Crime of American Univer- sity, and the Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the Univer- sity of Pittsburgh. This study clearly points to the symbiotic relations between organized crime and institutions of governance; a symbiosis that exists not only in that part of the world of interest to Dr. Wedel, but in many other areas as well. Such sym- biotic relations have ominous implications for economic, social, and political reform. And, to the extent that there is convergence between transnational 1

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