de Leon Petta Gomes Da Costa

Organized Crime and the Nation-State

Geopolitics and National Sovereignty

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 98
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9780367583026
• ISBN-10: 036758302X
• Artikelnr.: 66544376

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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