1st Edition
Criminals and Terrorists in Partnership Unholy Alliance
Introduction – Transnational organised crime and terrorism: different peas, same pod? Helena Carrapico, Daniela Irrera and Bill Tupman
1. Catch Me If You Can: or how policy networks help tackle the crime–terror nexus Inês Sofia Oliveira
2. Transnational organised crime and terrorism: Nexus needing a human security framework Marinko Bobic
3. Categorising the crime–terror nexus in the European Union Tamara Makarenko and Michael Mesquita
4. Jihadi networks and the involvement of vulnerable immigrants: reconsidering the ideological and pragmatic value Jasper L. de Bie, Christianne J. de Poot and Joanne P. van der Leun
5. Breaking the nexus: conceptualising ‘illicit sovereigns’ A study of the relation between the Sicilian Mafia and the Italian state Norma Rossi
6. Islamist movements in the Fergana Valley: a new threat assessment approach Viktoria Akchurina and Anita Lavorgna
7. Crime, terror and the state in Central Asia David Lewis
8. The nexus between terrorism and product counterfeiting in the United States Brandon A. Sullivan, Steven M. Chermak, Jeremy M. Wilson and Joshua D. Freilich
Biography
Helena Carrapico is Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University, Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on European security, with a particular focus on cyber security and cyber-crime.
Daniela Irrera is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Catania, Italy. Her research focuses on the crime-terror nexus and its implications for global security policies, in particular those of the European Union.
Bill Tupman is Visiting Professor in Criminal Justice at BPP University, UK, and Honorary University fellow, at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests focus on transnational crime, terrorism and police responses.
