03508nam 22005775 450 991101165100332120250621130231.03-031-92509-210.1007/978-3-031-92509-2(MiAaPQ)EBC32163953(Au-PeEL)EBL32163953(CKB)39412075100041(OCoLC)1525622172(DE-He213)978-3-031-92509-2(EXLCZ)993941207510004120250621d2025 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCriminal Non-State Actors Historical Developments and Impacts in South America /by Marcos Alan Ferreira1st ed. 2025.Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :Imprint: Springer,2025.1 online resource (256 pages)Contributions to Security and Defence Studies,2948-22913-031-92508-4 -- Introduction: criminal entities as a distinct typology of non-state actors and its role in South America. -- Conceptualizing Criminal Non-State Actors. -- Governance Capacities and Criminal Non-State Actors: dominating the local to expand globally. -- Pioneering Criminal Non-State Actors in South America: the rise and downfall of Colombia drug cartels and their consequences. -- Comando Vermelho: from a prison gang to a transnational criminal organization. -- Brazilian Criminal Organizations as Transnational Non-State Actors: the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). -- Brazilian Amazon as locus of Criminal Non-State Actors in South America.This monograph addresses the role of criminal non-state actors in South America. In a departure from traditional analysis, the author notes that non-state actors that affect political and social life in the Global South are not always terrorist actors or the result of political disputes. In several countries, criminal actors with a high degree of complexity emerge, capable of performing violent actions that proportionally surpass the economy of crime. Furthermore, they are capable of carrying out actions beyond the state, in a transnational approach, connecting with criminal organizations in other countries and or even other violent non-state actors. This volume consolidates studies on criminal non-state actors in South America, analyzing their historical development, governance capacity, profiling key actors, and assessing their overall effect on international relations as a whole. As such, it will be useful to students and researchers interested in international security, criminology, Latin American studies, and peace and conflict studies.Contributions to Security and Defence Studies,2948-2291Security, InternationalPeaceCriminologyInternational Security StudiesPeace and Conflict StudiesCriminology in the Global SouthSecurity, International.Peace.Criminology.International Security Studies.Peace and Conflict Studies.Criminology in the Global South.327.116Ferreira Marcos Alan1830232MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911011651003321Criminal Non-State Actors4400537UNINA