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Author Kupatadze, Alexander, 1978-

Title Organized crime, political transitions, and state formation in post-Soviet Eurasia / Alexander Kupatadze
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series Transnational crime, crime control and security
Transnational crime, crime control and security
Contents List of Charts and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Political-criminal Nexus and Patterns of Dominance -- Impact of Soviet and Post-Soviet Organized Crime -- Ukraine ₆ Privatisation and Re-privatisation: from Shadowy Takeovers to Corporate Raiding -- Georgia ₆ 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Organized crime -- Former Soviet republics -- Case studies
Power (Social sciences) -- Former Soviet republics
State, The.
Organized crime -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Constitution: government & the state -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
Political activism -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe)
TRUE CRIME -- Organized Crime.
Crime.
Organized crime
Politics and government
Power (Social sciences)
State, The
Nationenbildung
Organisiertes Verbrechen
Politischer Wandel
Postkommunismus.
Organisiertes Verbrechen.
Politischer Wandel.
Organized crime -- USSR, Soviet Union.
Constitution: government & the state -- USSR, Soviet Union.
Political activism -- USSR, Soviet Union.
Crime.
SUBJECT Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government -- Case studies
Subject Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Georgien
Kirgisien
Ukraine
Eurasien.
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230361393
0230361390
1283381486
9781283381482