{"product_id":"crime-terror-alliances-and-the-state-lyubov-mincheva-9780415506489","title":"Crime-Terror Alliances and the State: Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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 criminal and financial networks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book extends the concept of unholy alliances to include the trans-state criminal syndicates that arise in failed and dysfunctional states, exemplified by Serbia and Bulgaria during their post-Communist transitions. To deal with this complex and unconventional subject, the authors develop a theoretical framework that looks at four kinds of factors conditioning the interaction between the political and the criminal: trans-state identity networks, armed conflict, the balance of market opportunities and constraints, and the role of unstable and corrupt states. The volume also examines actors at two levels of analysis: the structure and activities of militant (and\/or criminal) networks, and the policies of state actors that shape and reshape the interaction of opportunities and constraints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of much interest to students of terrorism, insurgency, transnational crime, war and conflict studies, and IR in general.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyubov Mincheva,Ted Robert Gurr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415506484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415506489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.19lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Lyubov Mincheva","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48998559416575,"sku":"9780415506489","price":233.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crime-terror-alliances-and-the-state-lyubov-mincheva-9780415506489","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}