Crime-Terror Alliances and the State : Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grigorova-Mincheva, Lyubov.

Contributor:

Gurr, Ted Robert.

Series:

Contemporary Security Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminals--Social networks.

Criminals--Social networks--Case studies.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Case studies.

Transnational crime.

Transnational crime--Case studies.

Transnational crime--Social networks--Case studies.

Criminals--Case studies.

Criminals.

Local Subjects:

Criminals--Social networks.

Criminals--Social networks--Case studies.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Case studies.

Transnational crime.

Transnational crime--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate.""Unholy alliances"" is a term used to describe hybrid trans-border militant and criminal networks that pose serious threats to security in Europe and elsewhere. Identity networks provide the basis for militant organizations using violent strategies - insurgency and terrorism - for political objectives. To gain funds and weapons militant networks may establish criminal enterprises, or align with existing trans-border cri

Contents:

Cover; Crime-terror Alliances and the State: Ethnonationalist and Islamist challenges to Regional Security; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures, Maps, and Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Unholy Alliances: A Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Trans-border Crime-terror Networks; 2. Crime, Political Violence, and Governance in Kosovo: A Triple Alliance?; 3. Kurdish Nationalists and Criminal Networks: The Pkk in Turkey, the Middle East, and Europe; 4. Militant Islam and Bosnia's Civil War 1991-1995; 5. Greed, Grievance, and Political Islam in the Algerian Revolutionary War of the 1990s

6. Serbia in the 1990s: Militant Nationalism and the Criminalized State7. The State and Crime Syndicates in Post-communist Bulgaria; 8. Militants and Money: the Political Economy of Communal Rebels in Post-communist Europe and the Middle East; 9. Conclusions: Responding to Ethnonational and Islamist Crime-terror Networks; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-91997-4

0-203-07750-4

1-135-13211-9

9780203077504

OCLC:

823390005