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Transnational Drug Trafficking Across the Vietnam-Laos Border

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Hai Thanh Luong

    1. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Comes from a law enforcement practitioner with rich, local knowledge
  • Examines the ‘Golden Triangle’ in transnational drug trafficking, where a large percentage of the world’s illicit cultivation of the opium poppy takes place
  • Contributes to both policy and law enforcement practice

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Hai Thanh Luong
    Pages 1-25

  3. Drug Trafficking Across Vietnam’s Borderlands

    • Hai Thanh Luong
    Pages 27-52

  4. Family-Based Structures and Association with Fellow-Countrymen

    • Hai Thanh Luong
    Pages 53-93

  5. Modus Operandi of Cross-Border Drug Trafficking in Vietnam

    • Hai Thanh Luong
    Pages 95-122

  6. Barriers to Combating Transnational Narcotics Trafficking

    • Hai Thanh Luong
    Pages 123-145

  7. Proposed Initiatives to Combat Cross-Border Drug Trafficking

    • Hai Thanh Luong
    Pages 147-168

  8. Conclusions

    • Hai Thanh Luong
    Pages 169-182

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 183-221
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About this book

This book presents the first detailed inquiry into the nature of cross-border drug trafficking between Laos People’s Democratic Republic and Vietnam, using an exploratory approach. It draws upon qualitative and quantitative methods, case studies, interviews and survey data from criminal investigation police and drug-related crimes officers (CIPDRC) from six border provinces which are directly and indirectly involved in investigating these cross-border cases. The author demonstrates that drug markets in Vietnam are not controlled by monopolistic, hierarchical organizations or ‘cartels’ but small structures, based on family ties and fellow-countrymen relations, which are fluid and loosely organized. They are very adaptable and sophisticated with diverse modus operandi and multiple divisions of labour which present particular challenges to law enforcement agencies, which the author discusses. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Hai Thanh Luong

About the author

Hai Thanh Luong is Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology University, Australia. 

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