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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Contemporary Security Studies |
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Contemporary security studies.
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| 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 |
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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 |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Transnational crime -- Social networks -- Case studies
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Criminals -- Case studies
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Terrorism -- Case studies
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Terrorism
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Criminals
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Social Welfare & Social Work.
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Social Sciences.
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Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gurr, Ted Robert
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| ISBN |
9781135132118 |
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1135132119 |
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