Introduction; 1. Dirty Politics or "Harmonie"?; 2. A Crisis of Charter and Right; 3. The First War on Drugs; 4. Befitting Bedfellows; 5. Mobilizing Convict Bodies; 6. The Underside of Overseas Chinese Society in Southeast Asia; 7. A Historical Perspective on State Engagement in Informal Trade on the Uganda-Congo Border; 8. The Narcobourgeoisie and State Making in Colombia; 9. Russia's Gangster Capitalism; 10. Economic Crime and Neoliberal Modes of Government; Contributors; Index
Summary
Renowned historical sociologist Charles Tilly wrote many years ago that "banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing, and war-making all belong on the same continuum." This volume pursues the idea by revealing how lawbreakers and lawmakers have related to one another on the shadowy terrains of power over wide stretches of time and space. Illicit activities and forces have been more important in state building and state maintenance than conventional histories have acknowledged. Covering vast chronological and global terrain, this book traces the contested and often overlapping boundaries be
