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Title Conflict, crime, and the State in Postcommunist Eurasia / edited by Svante Cornell and Michael Jonsson ; contributors Jana Arsovska [and seven others]
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (293 pages)
Series EBL-Schweitzer
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The Nexus of Crime and Conflict / Cornell, Svante ; Jonsson, Michael -- Chapter 2. Afghanistan's Endless Conflict and the Development of the Opium Industry / Cornell, Svante -- Chapter 3. Tajikistan: From Drug-Insurgency to Drug-State Nexus / Engvall, Johan -- Chapter 4. The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan / Cornell, Svante -- Chapter 5. From Chechen Mafia to the Islamic Emirate of the Caucasus: The Changing Faces of the Insurgency-Organized Crime Nexus / Batal al-Shishani, Murad -- Chapter 6. Georgia's Conflicts: Abkhazia and South Ossetia / Nilsson, Niklas -- Chapter 7. Moldova: The Transnistrian Conflict / Molcean, Alexandru ; Verständig, Natalie -- Chapter 8. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Where International Wars, Transnational Crime, and Shady Politics Meet / Arsovska, Jana -- Chapter 9. The Kosovo Conflict: From Humanitarian Intervention to State Capture / Jonsson, Michael -- Chapter 10. Conclusions and Implications for Conflict Resolution and Peacekeeping / Cornell, Svante ; Jonsson, Michael -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary Conflict, Crime, and the State in Postcommunist Eurasia examines the emergence and evolution of a crime-conflict nexus and the relationship between ideologically motivated insurgents and profit-motivated criminal organizations in the region
Analysis Human Rights
Law
Political Science
Public Policy
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Political violence -- Economic aspects -- Eurasia -- Case studies
Organized crime -- Political aspects -- Eurasia -- Case studies
Insurgency -- Economic aspects -- Eurasia -- Case studies
Civil war -- Economic aspects -- Eurasia -- Case studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization.
Civil war -- Economic aspects
Insurgency -- Economic aspects
Organized crime -- Political aspects
Political violence -- Economic aspects
Eurasia
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Cornell, Svante E., editor.
Jonsson, Michael, editor.
Arsovska, Jana
ISBN 9780812208986
0812208986
0812245652
9780812245653
1322513333
9781322513331