Helena Carrapico is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on European security, with a particular focus on cyber security and cyber-crime.

Daniela Irrera is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Catania, Italy. Her research focuses on the crime-terror nexus and its implications for global security policies, in particular those of the European Union.

Bill Tupman is Visiting Professor in Criminal Justice at BPP University, UK, and Honorary University fellow, at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests focus on transnational crime, terrorism and police responses.

Considering the danger that both organised crime and terrorism currently pose to the world, the collusion between these two phenomena is of urgent contemporary interest. Basing itself on geographical and policy-based case studies, this interdisciplinary book explores the empirical understanding of the crime- terror nexus and its evolution, the impact of the nexus within different economic, political and societal contexts, and the theoretical conceptualization of the crime-terror nexus. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.

Introduction - Transnational organised crime and terrorism: different peas, same pod? 1. Catch Me If You Can: or how policy networks help tackle the crime-terror nexus 2. Transnational organised crime and terrorism: Nexus needing a human security framework 3. Categorising the crime-terror nexus in the European Union 4. Jihadi networks and the involvement of vulnerable immigrants: reconsidering the ideological and pragmatic value 5. Breaking the nexus: conceptualising 'illicit sovereigns' A study of the relation between the Sicilian Mafia and the Italian state 6. Islamist movements in the Fergana Valley: a new threat assessment approach 7. Crime, terror and the state in Central Asia 8. The nexus between terrorism and product counterfeiting in the United States