Family Incorporated: Organized Crime and the Nation State

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan
Series: ISN Special Feature
Publisher(s): International Relations and Security Nework (ISN), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2012

Both transnational and national-level organized crime have been on the rise since the end of the Cold War, even if their significance has differed from region to region. Fears about the rise of so-called mafia-states, however, are harder to substantiate, or so argues this contribution.

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