Hidden power : the strategic logic of organized crime / James Cockayne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockayne, James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organized crime.

Local Subjects:

Organized crime.

Physical Description:

xix, 476 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2016.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO ORGANIZED CRIME

1. Introduction

Making sense of criminal power

Entering a gallery of mirrors

About this book

2. The Strategic Organization of Crime

What do we know about political-criminal interaction?

Criminal strategy and governmental power

Individual, network or organizational strategy?

Social bandits and primitive criminal strategy

Criminal capabilities

Coercion

Corruption

Communications

Command and control

Conclusion

pt. TWO EPISODES IN CRIMINAL STRATEGY

3. Tammany: `How New York is Governed', 1869

1920

New York's government: machine made

Guardians of the Revolution

Gangs of New York

The ghost in the machine

Boss Tweed: Lord of the Kings

A quest for influence

Monarch of Manhattan

Downfall

Honest graft

4. Mafia Origins, 1859

1929

Origins^^^

Profiting from transition

Organizing the Sicilian mafia

Mafia migration

The Black Hand

Modern Family

Illicit government

The Iron Prefect

5. War and Peace in the American Mafia, 1920

1941

War

Prohibition as a driver of innovation

Civil war in the American mafia

Mediation and betrayal

Peace

Five Families

Coup d'etat

A new governmental approach

Consolidating power

Racketeering and union power

Gambling innovation and political finance

Fall of a czar

Playing kingmaker

Mobbing up

The Boy Scout

6. The Underworld Project, 1941

1943

`This is a war'

Enlisting the underworld

Regular guys

Lucky's break

From watchdog to attack dog

Invading Italy

Local knowledge

Creating a fifth column

Release and exile

7. Governing Sicily, 1942

1968

`A bargain has been struck^^^^

Black market rents

"Wine and women and champagne'

`Our good friends'

Mafia separatism

Confrontation, accommodation or withdrawal?

The logic of mafia separatism

Seeking Great Power protection

Negotiating peace with the mafia

A bandit army

Settlement and betrayal

Negotiating Sicily's transition

A Sicilian political machine

Wisdom of the Mob

The sack of Palermo

8. The Cuba Joint Venture, 1933

1958

Buying into Cuba

Rise of a strongman

The `Batista Palace Gang'

Gangsterismo

A joint venture in government

The Havana Mob

Rebellion in the Mob

Revolution in Cuba

9. The Blue Caribbean Ocean, 1959

1983

`A gangland style killing'

Accommodation or confrontation?

Internationalizing Murder, Inc.

Seeking protection

Subversion and its unintended consequences

What went wrong at the Bay of Pigs?^^^s been struck^^^^

Learning from the Mob?

Cold War wildcard: the Missile Crisis

Did the magic button backfire?

The Bahamas and the birth of offshore capitalism

Invading Haiti

Casino capitalism

Ballots, not bullets

Epilogue: a city by the Atlantic

pt. THREE THE MARKET FOR GOVERNMENT

10. Strategic Criminal Positioning

The market for government

Intermediation: mafia logic

Autonomy: warlordism and gang rule

Merger: joint ventures

Strategic alliances

Terrorism as criminal positioning strategy

Relocation and blue ocean strategy

11. Innovation, Disruption and Strategy beyond the State

Innovation and disruption

Mexico: from narcocartels to narcocults

The shifting sands of the Sahel

The disruption of sovereignty

Implications

War and strategy beyond the state

Combating criminal governmentality

Managing criminal spoilers in peace and transition processes^^^uck^^^^

Envoi: the rise of criminal statecraft.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-447) and index.

ISBN:

9781849046350

1849046352

OCLC:

958779630

Publisher Number:

99968868440