Crime-Terror Alliances and the State: Ethnonationalist and Islamist Challenges to Regional Security

by Ted Robert Gurr and Lyubov Grigorova Mincheva

Book Overview

This book examines the trans-border connections between militant and criminal networks and the relationship between these and the states in which they operate.

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415506484
• ISBN13: 9780415506489
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages