RT Book
T1 Webs of Corruption: Trafficking and Terrorism in Central Asia
T2 Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
A1 Omelicheva, Mariya 1977-
A2 Markowitz, Lawrence P. 1970-
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1685982476
AB Counterterrorism experts and policy makers have warned of the peril posed by the links between violent extremism and organized crime, especially the relationship between drug trafficking and terrorism funding. Yet Central Asia, the site of extensive opium trafficking, sees low levels of terrorist violence. Webs of Corruption is an innovative study demonstrating that terrorist and criminal activity intersect more narrowly than is widely believed—and that the state plays the pivotal role in shaping those interconnections.Mariya Y. Omelicheva and Lawrence P. Markowitz analyze the linkages between the drug trade and terrorism financing in Central Asia, finding that state security services shape the nexus of trafficking and terrorism. While organized crime and terrorism do intersect in parts of the region, profit-driven criminal organizations and politically motivated violent groups come together based on the nature of state involvement. Governments in high-trafficking regions are drawn into illicit economies and forge relationships with a range of nonstate violent actors, such as insurgents, erstwhile regime opponents, and transnational groups. Omelicheva and Markowitz contend that these relationships can mitigate terrorism—by redirecting these actors toward other forms of violence. Offering a groundbreaking combination of quantitative, qualitative, and geographic information systems methods to map trafficking/terrorism connections on the ground, Webs of Corruption provides a meticulously researched, counterintuitive perspective on a potent regional security problem
AB Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Theorizing the Trafficking- Terrorism Nexus -- 2. Mapping How Trafficking and Terrorism Intersect -- 3. Convergence and Coexistence: Divergent Paths of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- 4. Emerging Relationships Within the Nexus: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1. SOCIOECONOMIC PREDICTORS OF THE TRAFFICKING- TERRORISM NEXUS -- APPENDIX 2. THE IMPACT OF DRUG TRAFFICKING ON TERRORISM -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
CN HV5840.A783
SN 9780231547918
K1 Drug traffic : Asia, Central
K1 Terrorism : Asia, Central
K1 Terrorismus
K1 Internationaler Terrorismus
K1 Organisiertes Verbrechen
K1 Drogenhandel
K1 Heroin
K1 Opium
K1 Bekämpfung
K1 Kriminalität
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism
K1 Kasachstan
K1 Usbekistan
K1 Tadschikistan
K1 Zentralasien : Korruption : Drogenhandel : Terrorismus
K1 eBook-DeGruyter-EBS-2021-2022
DO 10.7312/omel18854