Organized crime, political transitions, and state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia [electronic resource]

• 作者： Kupatadze, Alexander, 1978-
• 其他題名：
  • Transnational crime, crime control and security
• 出版： New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Transnational crime, crime control and security
• 主題： Organized crime--Former Soviet republics--Case studies. , Power (Social sciences)--Former Soviet republics. , State, The , TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime , Former Soviet republics--Politics and government--Case studies. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9780230361393 (electronic bk.) 、 0230361390 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. List of Charts and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Political-criminal Nexus and Patterns of Dominance -- Impact of Soviet and Post-Soviet Organized Crime -- Ukraine b6s Privatisation and Re-privatisation: from Shadowy Takeovers to Corporate Raiding -- Georgia b6s Extortion: from Professional Criminals to the 'Revolutionary Government' -- Kyrgyzstan - Drug Trafficking: from Sportsmeny and Ugalovniki to Police and Elites -- The Coloured Revolutions and their Consequences -- Organized Crime, Transitions and State Formation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index --. List of charts and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Political-criminal nexus and patterns of dominance -- Impact of Soviet and post-Soviet organized crime -- Ukraine : privatisation and re-privatisation : from shadowy takeovers to corporate raiding -- Georgia : extortion : from professional criminals to the "revolutionary government" -- Kyrgyzstan : drug trafficking : from sportsmeny and ugalovniki to police and elites -- The coloured revolutions and their consequences -- Organized crime, transitions, and state formation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
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• 摘要註: For thisinnovative study, the first situating organized crime in the debate on state formation, Alexander Kupatadze interviewed over one hundred respondents including criminals, law enforcement officials, and politicians in post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan to map the divergent patterns of organized crime in these countries following their Coloured Revolutions. Drawing upon unique case studies of criminal activity, the authortraces the thin line dividing the licit and illicit spheres, or 'upper' and 'under' economic and political worlds. Kupatadze argues that state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia has been heavily marked by struggle for the dominance between political elites and organized crime groups that involved various forms of contention and collaboration. In reassessing the nature of state criminalization, Kupatadze introduces three dimensions of the state that determine the patterns of dominance: political-coercive, economic-taxation and ideological-informational. He distills the variables surrounding organized crime into contextual (geography, regional wars) and intermediate (related with the Coloured Revolutions such as participation of civil society, resources of competing political groups). This work is an important contribution to the study of organized criminality and state formation.
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