Organized Crime, Political Transitions and State Formation in Post-Soviet Eurasia

By Alexander Kupatadze

Book Overview

Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the diverging patterns in organized crime following the aftermath of these countries' Coloured Revolutions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349335460
• ISBN13: 9781349335466
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"