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Date de parution
15 janvier 2011
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9780801458309
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English
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Big, attention-grabbing numbers are frequently used in policy debates and media reporting: "At least 200,000-250,000 people died in the war in Bosnia." "There are three million child soldiers in Africa." "More than 650,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." "Between 600,000 and 800,000 women are trafficked across borders every year." "Money laundering represents as much as 10 percent of global GDP." "Internet child porn is a $20 billion-a-year industry."Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill see only one problem: these numbers are probably false. Their continued use and abuse reflect a much larger and troubling pattern: policymakers and the media naively or deliberately accept highly politicized and questionable statistical claims about activities that are extremely difficult to measure. As a result, we too often become trapped by these mythical numbers, with perverse and counterproductive consequences.This problem exists in myriad policy realms. But it is particularly pronounced in statistics related to the politically charged realms of global crime and conflict-numbers of people killed in massacres and during genocides, the size of refugee flows, the magnitude of the illicit global trade in drugs and human beings, and so on. In Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and policy analysts critically examine the murky origins of some of these statistics and trace their remarkable proliferation. They also assess the standard metrics used to evaluate policy effectiveness in combating problems such as terrorist financing, sex trafficking, and the drug trade.Contributors: Peter Andreas, Brown University; Thomas J. Biersteker, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies-Geneva; Sue E. Eckert, Brown University; David A. Feingold, Ophidian Research Institute and UNESCO; H. Richard Friman, Marquette University; Kelly M. Greenhill, Tufts University and Harvard University; John Hagan, Northwestern University; Lara J. Nettelfield, Institut Barcelona D'Estudis Internacionals and Simon Fraser University; Wenona Rymond-Richmond, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Winifred Tate, Colby College; Kay B. Warren, Brown University
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Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts
Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts
The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conict
edited by Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill
Cornell University Press Ithaca and London
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Sex, drugs, and body counts : the politics of numbers in global crime and conict / edited by Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801448614 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 9780801476181 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. StatisticsPolitical aspectsCase studies. 2. Statistical methodsPolitical aspectsCase studies. 3. Transnational crimeStatisticsPolitical aspectsCase studies. 4. International relationsStatisticsPolitical aspects Case studies. 5. Policy sciencesStatistical methodsCase studies. I. Andreas, Peter, 1965 II. Greenhill, Kelly M., 1970 HA29.S558 2010 363.32072'7dc22 2009046277
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List of Contributors Acknowledgments
Contents
1Introduction: The Politics of Numbers Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill 2The Politics of Measuring Illicit Flows and Policy Effectiveness Peter Andreas 3Trafcking in Numbers: The Social Construction of Human Trafcking Data David A. Feingold 4Numbers and Certication: Assessing Foreign Compliance in Combating Narcotics and Human Trafcking H. Richard Friman 5The Illusiveness of Counting Victims and the Concreteness of Ranking Countries: Trafcking in Persons from Colombia to Japan Kay B. Warren 6Counting the Cost: The Politics of Numbers in Armed Conict Kelly M. Greenhill
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7Research and Repercussions of Death Tolls: The Case of the Bosnian Book of the Dead Lara J. Netteleld 8The Ambiguous Genocide: The U.S. State Department and the Death Toll in Darfur John Hagan and Wenona RymondRichmond 9Accounting for Absence: The Colombian Paramilitaries in U.S. Policy Debates Winifred Tate 10(Mis)Measuring Success in Countering the Financing of Terrorism Sue E. Eckert and Thomas J. Biersteker 11Conclusion: The Numbers in Politics Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill
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Contributors
Peter Andreasassociate professor of political science and interna is tional studies at Brown University. Thomas J. Bierstekeris the Curt Gasteyger Chair in International Se curity and Conict Studies at the Graduate Institute of International and Development StudiesGeneva. Sue E. Eckertis a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. David A. Feingoldis director of the Ophidian Research Institute and International Coordinator for HIV/AIDS and Trafcking for the United Nations Educational Scientic and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Bangkok.
H. Richard Frimanis Eliot Fitch Professor for International Studies, professor of political science and Director of the Center for Transna tional Justice at Marquette University.
Kelly M. Greenhillis assistant professor of political science and inter national relations at Tufts University and a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government. John Haganis the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University. Lara J. Nettelfield is postdoctoral fellow at the Institut Barcelona dEstudis Internacionals and assistant professor at Simon Fraser Univer sitys School for International Studies. Wenona RymondRichmondis assistant professor of sociology at the University of MassachusettsAmherst. Winifred Tateis assistant professor of anthropology at Colby College. Kay B. Warrenis the Charles B. Tillinghast Jr. 32 Professor of Inter national Studies and professor of anthropology at Brown University.
Acknowledgments
his book is the product of a multiyear collaboration involving authors T who cross disciplinary boundaries as well as the boundaries between academia and the policy world. The contributors include political scien tists, anthropologists, sociologists, policy analysts, and practitioners. De spite widely varying backgrounds, training, and professional experience, all share a core interest in the politics of numbers and the use of numbers in politics. We thank the World Peace Foundation and the Belfer Center at the Ken nedy School of Government at Harvard University (and especially Robert Rotberg) for funding and hosting the conference in December 2006 that inspired the idea for this volume. We also thank the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University (the Global Security Program, the Politics, Culture and Identity Program, and especially Thomas Bier steker) for funding and hosting the December 2007 authors conference where early drafts of many of the chapters were rst presented. Some of the draft chapters were subsequently presented on a panel at the 2008 An nual Convention of the International Studies Association in Chicago. We are grateful to Roger Haydon at Cornell University Press, who was suf ciently intrigued by the topic of this book to overcome his initial allergic reaction to taking on another edited volume. Two external reviewers for the press provided thoughtful and constructive comments. We also thank Solomon Eppel for his research assistance and Elizabeth Bennett for her help in getting this book ready for publication.
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Finally, we would like to thank our coauthors without whose contribu tions this volume would have remained little more than an inchoate set of ideas and concerns that we shared and believed warranted greater atten tion, both by the academy and in the policy world. We believe that taken together the chapters herein represent far more than the sum of their parts, and we appreciate the substantial effort each of the contributors devoted to producing this volume.
Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill
