{"product_id":"crime-terror-alliances-and-the-state","title":"Crime-Terror Alliances and the State","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","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45589723644142,"sku":"9780415657785","price":80.8,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415657785_c0f9cd12-7c94-4d00-b91d-ee205f8ade2f.jpg?v=1721226141","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/crime-terror-alliances-and-the-state","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}