Countering Narcotics and Organized Crime in the East Baltic Sea Region

Research report · Published (2005)

Complete citation

Emin Poljarević. Countering Narcotics and Organized Crime in the East Baltic Sea Region. Silk Road Studies Report. Uppsala University, 2005.

Publication status and type

Published (2005); research report.

Overview

This research report examines cross-border narcotics trafficking, organised crime, and regional security cooperation in the eastern Baltic Sea region. It situates its subject within relevant historical, social, and intellectual contexts while connecting the particular case to wider questions of interpretation, institutional life, and collective action. The publication considers how concepts, actors, traditions, or political conditions acquire significance within changing social settings. Its scholarly contribution lies in placing a clearly defined research problem in a broader interdisciplinary conversation. Read alongside related publications, it also illuminates enduring questions about religion, political inquiry, ethical reasoning, social transformation, and the circumstances under which knowledge, belonging, and collective agency take shape in public life.

Research question or central concern

How can cross-border narcotics trafficking, organised crime, and regional security cooperation in the eastern Baltic Sea region be understood in context?

Main argument, approach, and contribution

A context-sensitive scholarly examination of cross-border narcotics trafficking, organised crime, and regional security cooperation in the eastern Baltic Sea region.

Keywords

Baltic Sea region; organised crime; narcotics trafficking; regional security; policy analysis.