Organized Crime and the Nation-State: Geopolitics and National Sovereignty

ISBN-13: 9780367583026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 98 str.

de Leon Petta Gomes Da Costa

Opis

This book seeks to establish a direct relationship between nation states and organized crime groups. It explores the idea that many States have been using criminal and terrorist organizations as a policy for national sovereignty issues, and as a tool to strengthen the nation’s geopolitical position. This book brings together international relati

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.