Organized Crime and the Nation-State

Geopolitics and National Sovereignty
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58302-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 108 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 177 g

Geopolitics is an increasingly important tool to understand national and international relations.

This book unravels how organized crime is not just a marginal problem but part of a bigger geopolitical and asymmetrical warfare strategy. It seeks to establish a direct relationship between Nation States and organized crime groups. Many States have been using criminal and terrorist organizations as a policy for issues of national sovereignty or as a tool to strengthen a nation’s geopolitical position. This book demonstrates how national states are utilizing criminal organizations in covert operations and "dirty jobs" such as espionage, proxy war, arms trafficking and sabotage. Examples from the United States, China and the Soviet Union are explored, providing both an historical and contemporary analysis, from World War II through to the Cold War and to the present day. The book brings together perspectives from international relations and criminology drawing on insights from a variety of sources, including public documents and interviews.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petta Gomes Da Costa, de Leon

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Geopolitics and organized crime: Delimiting the geopolitical subject and its relation to organized crime

2. Filling vacuums: Bourdieu and Alinsky meet Ratzel and Kissinger

3. Cooperation between nation-states and organised crime

4. China and its invisible hand

5. Soviet Union and Russia: The use of underground forces

6. Conclusions and final considerations

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa is a Professor of International Security in Rio Branco College, Brazil, specializing in Geopolitics, Organized Crime and non-conventional warfare. He was also a Visiting Researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA and Honorary Researcher at Hong Kong University.