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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa, De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa, De Leon (University of Sao P Petta Gomes Da Costa, De Leon (University of Sao Paulo Petta Gomes da Costa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138387348
• ISBN: 978-1-138-38734-8
• No. of pages: 98
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Nationalism, Organized crime, Human Geography, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements