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Organized crime, political transitions, and state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Organized crime, political transitions, and state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia/ Alexander Kupatadze.
Author:	Kupatadze, Alexander,
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Organized crime - Case studies. - Former Soviet republics -
Subject:	Former Soviet republics - Commerce. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230361393
ISBN:	9780230361393 (electronic bk.)

Organized crime, political transitions, and state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia
Kupatadze, Alexander,1978-

Organized crime, political transitions, and state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia[electronic resource] /Alexander Kupatadze. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource. - Transnational crime, crime control and security. - Transnational crime, crime control and security..

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 b6 s Privatisation and Re-privatisation: from Shadowy Takeovers to Corporate Raiding -- Georgia b6 s 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 --.

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.

ISBN: 9780230361393 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786613381484

Source: 499078Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

836535
Organized crime
--Former Soviet republics--Case studies.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

800986
Former Soviet republics
--Commerce.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HV6453.E8 / K85 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 364.1060947

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