Crime-Terror Alliances and the State [[electronic resource] ] : Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463053403321
• Autore: Mincheva Lyubov Grigorova
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-91997-4; 0-203-07750-4; 1-135-13211-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary Security Studies
• Altri autori (Persone): GurrTed Robert
• Disciplina: 363.325; 364.106
• Soggetti: Criminals - Social networks; Criminals -- Social networks -- Case studies; Criminals -- Social networks; Terrorism; Terrorism -- Case studies; Transnational crime; Transnational crime -- Case studies; Transnational crime - Social networks; Criminals; Social Welfare & Social Work; Social Sciences; Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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