Criminal Non-State Actors

Historical Developments and Impacts in South America

AvMarcos Alan Ferreira

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Contributions to Security and Defence Studies

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Beskrivning

This volume consolidates studies on criminal non-state actors in South America, analyzing their historical development, governance capacity, profiling key actors, and assessing their overall effect on international relations as a whole.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-06-21
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:457 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contributions to Security and Defence Studies
Antal sidor:172
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031925085

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Marcos Alan Ferreira is an Associate Professor at Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Brazil, Visiting Professor at Universidad Núr, Bolivia, and Senior Research Fellow at Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Previously he was Visiting Researcher at University of Manchester, UK, and Uppsala University, Sweden. His articles have been published in top journals like International Studies Perspectives, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, Latin American Research Review, Trends in Organized Crime, Journal of Political Science Education, and others. His research is focused on the impacts of organized crime and state violence on peace in Brazil and South America.

Innehållsförteckning

.- Introduction: criminal entities as a distinct typology of non-state actors and its role in South America..- Conceptualizing Criminal Non-State Actors..- Governance Capacities and Criminal Non-State Actors: dominating the local to expand globally..- Pioneering Criminal Non-State Actors in South America: the rise and downfall of Colombia drug cartels and their consequences..- Comando Vermelho: from a prison gang to a transnational criminal organization..- Brazilian Criminal Organizations as Transnational Non-State Actors: the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)..- Brazilian Amazon as locus of Criminal Non-State Actors in South America.