Hidden power : the strategic logic of organized crime /

An exploration of a world in which states and mafias compete in a ""market for government, "" and not only states, but also some criminal groups make war.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cockayne, James (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Organized crime.
Crime organisé.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Organized crime
Organisiertes Verbrechen
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO ORGANIZED CRIME
  • 1. Introduction
  • Making sense of criminal power
  • Entering a gallery of mirrors
  • About this book
  • 2. The Strategic Organization of Crime
  • What do we know about political-criminal interaction?
  • Criminal strategy and governmental power
  • Individual, network or organizational strategy?
  • Social bandits and primitive criminal strategy
  • Criminal capabilities
  • Coercion
  • Corruption
  • Communications
  • Command and control
  • Conclusion
  • pt. TWO EPISODES IN CRIMINAL STRATEGY
  • 3. Tammany: `How New York is Governed', 1869
  • 1920
  • New York's government: machine made
  • Guardians of the Revolution
  • Gangs of New York
  • The ghost in the machine
  • Boss Tweed: Lord of the Kings
  • A quest for influence
  • Monarch of Manhattan
  • Downfall
  • Honest graft
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Mafia Origins, 1859
  • 1929
  • Origins^^^
  • Profiting from transition
  • Organizing the Sicilian mafia
  • Mafia migration
  • The Black Hand
  • Modern Family
  • Illicit government
  • The Iron Prefect
  • Conclusion
  • 5. War and Peace in the American Mafia, 1920
  • 1941
  • War
  • Prohibition as a driver of innovation
  • Civil war in the American mafia
  • Mediation and betrayal
  • Peace
  • Five Families
  • Coup d'etat
  • A new governmental approach
  • Consolidating power
  • Racketeering and union power
  • Gambling innovation and political finance
  • Fall of a czar
  • Playing kingmaker
  • Mobbing up
  • The Boy Scout
  • Conclusion
  • 6. The Underworld Project, 1941
  • 1943
  • `This is a war'
  • Enlisting the underworld
  • Regular guys
  • Lucky's break
  • From watchdog to attack dog
  • Invading Italy
  • Local knowledge
  • Creating a fifth column
  • Release and exile
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Governing Sicily, 1942
  • 1968
  • `A bargain has been struck^^^^
  • Black market rents
  • "Wine and women and champagne'
  • `Our good friends'
  • Mafia separatism
  • Confrontation, accommodation or withdrawal?
  • The logic of mafia separatism
  • Seeking Great Power protection
  • Negotiating peace with the mafia
  • A bandit army
  • Settlement and betrayal
  • Negotiating Sicily's transition
  • A Sicilian political machine
  • Wisdom of the Mob
  • The sack of Palermo
  • Conclusion
  • 8. The Cuba Joint Venture, 1933
  • 1958
  • Buying into Cuba
  • Rise of a strongman
  • The `Batista Palace Gang'
  • Gangsterismo
  • A joint venture in government
  • The Havana Mob
  • Rebellion in the Mob
  • Revolution in Cuba
  • Conclusion
  • 9. The Blue Caribbean Ocean, 1959
  • 1983
  • `A gangland style killing'
  • Accommodation or confrontation?
  • Internationalizing Murder, Inc.
  • Seeking protection
  • Subversion and its unintended consequences
  • What went wrong at the Bay of Pigs?^^^s been struck^^^^
  • Learning from the Mob?
  • Cold War wildcard: the Missile Crisis
  • Did the magic button backfire?
  • The Bahamas and the birth of offshore capitalism
  • Invading Haiti
  • Casino capitalism
  • Ballots, not bullets
  • Epilogue: a city by the Atlantic
  • Conclusion
  • pt. THREE THE MARKET FOR GOVERNMENT
  • 10. Strategic Criminal Positioning
  • The market for government
  • Intermediation: mafia logic
  • Autonomy: warlordism and gang rule
  • Merger: joint ventures
  • Strategic alliances
  • Terrorism as criminal positioning strategy
  • Relocation and blue ocean strategy
  • 11. Innovation, Disruption and Strategy beyond the State
  • Innovation and disruption
  • Mexico: from narcocartels to narcocults
  • The shifting sands of the Sahel
  • The disruption of sovereignty
  • Implications
  • War and strategy beyond the state
  • Combating criminal governmentality
  • Managing criminal spoilers in peace and transition processes^^^uck^^^^
  • Envoi: the rise of criminal statecraft.

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