1st Edition
Organized Crime and the Nation-State Geopolitics and National Sovereignty
By De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa
Copyright 2019
108 Pages
by
Routledge
108 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
108 Pages
11 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
