RT Book
T1 Gangsters and other statesmen: mafias, separatists, and torn states in a globalized world
A1 Mandić, Danilo 1985-
LA English
PP Princeton Oxford
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1744403600
AB Separatism has been on the rise across the world since the end of the Cold War, dividing countries through political strife, ethnic conflict, and civil war, and redrawing the political map. Gangsters and Other Statesmen examines the role transnational mafias play in the success and failure of separatist movements, challenging conventional wisdom about the interrelation of organized crime with peacebuilding, nationalism, and state making. Danilo Mandić conducted fieldwork in the disputed territories of Kosovo and South Ossetia, talking to mobsters, separatists, and policymakers in war zones and along major smuggling routes. In this timely and provocative book, he demonstrates how globalized mafias shape the politics of borders in torn states, shedding critical light on an autonomous nonstate actor that has been largely sidelined by considerations of geopolitics, state-centered agency, and ethnonationalism. Blending extensive archival sleuthing and original ethnographic data with insights from sociology and other disciplines, Mandić argues that organized crime can be a fateful determinant of state capacity, separatist success, and ethnic conflict. Putting mafias at the center of global processes of separatism and territorial consolidation, Gangsters and Other Statesmen raises vital questions and urges reconsideration of a host of separatist cases in West Africa, the Middle East, and East Europe.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-272, Register
CN a
SN 9780691187877
SN 9780691187884
K1 Mafia : Political aspects : Kosovo (Republic)
K1 Mafia : Political aspects : Georgia : South Ossetia
K1 Separatist movements
K1 Transnational Crime
K1 Separatismus
K1 Failed State
K1 Begrenzte Staatlichkeit
K1 Minderheitenfrage
K1 Nationenbildung
K1 Verbrechen
K1 Schmuggel
K1 Außenhandel
K1 Fallstudie
K1 Kosovo (Republic) : Politics and government
K1 South Ossetia (Georgia) : Politics and government
K1 Erde