Cooperation between Nation-State and organized crime: a dark geopolitics

• Grant number: 14/15686-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 20, 2015
• End date: May 19, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Andre Roberto Martin
• Grantee: De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa
• Supervisor: Carolin Goerzig
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/20955-5 - Cooperation between Nation-State and organized crime: a dark geopolitics, BP.DR

Abstract

The increasing process flow of goods and people started in the '80s and expanded over the years of 90 and 2000, generating the idea that the Nation-State borders and sovereign issues would fall into disuse. This added to the fact that non-state actors have increased their importance in the international political scenario would have placed, to some scholars, the state in a weakness condition, especially in face of transnational criminal organizations. However, this study aims to show that not only the state is far from being a "victim" or be weakened, as moreover, uses these same actors to expand their political power and maintain their sovereignty and influence. (AU)