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Author:   Eric Wilson
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.442kg
ISBN:  

9780745326238

ISBN 10:   0745326234
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   20 January 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Parapolitics, Shadow Governance and Criminal Sovereignty Robert Cribb (Australian National University, Canberra) and Peter Dale Scott (University of California, Berkeley) PART I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Deconstructing the Shadows by Eric Wilson (Monash University, Victoria, Australia) 2. Democratic State vs. Deep State: Approaching the Dual State of the West by Ola Tunander (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo) 3. Governing Through Globalised Crime by Mark Findlay (University of Sydney) 4. Prospering from Crime: Money Laundering and Financial Crises by Guilhem Fabre (Le Harve University, France) 5. The Shadow Economy: Markets, Crime and the State by Howard Dick (University of Melbourne) 6. Transnational Crime and Global Illicit Economies by Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex University) 7. Redefining Statehood in the Global Periphery by William Reno (Northwestern University, Illinois) PART II: CASE STUDIES 8. The Sicilian Mafia: Para-state and Adventure Capitalism by Henner Hess (University of Frankfurt) 9. Drugs, Parapolitics, and Mexico: The DFS, the Drug Traffic, and the United States by Peter Dale Scott (University of California, Berkeley) 10. Parapolitics and Afghanistan by Rensselaer W. Lee III (Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia) 11. From Drug Lords to Warlords: Illegal Drugs and the 'Unintended' Consequences of Drug Policies in Colombia by Francisco Thoumi (Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá) 12. Covert Netherworld: Clandestine Services and Criminal Syndicates in Shaping the Philippine State by Alfred W. McCoy (University of Wisconsin-Madison) 13. Beyond Democratic Checks and Balances: The Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge and the CIA in Italy's First Republic by Daniele Ganser (Freelance historian, has taught at universities in Switzerland including Basel) Notes on Contributors Index

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Eric Wilson is Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Melbourne, engaged with questions of critical legal theory and the history and philosophy of international law. He is the author of Government of the Shadows (Pluto, 2009).

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