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

Author(s)

De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-10-27

Examining board members

Andre Roberto Martin; José Alexandre Altahyde Hage; Fausto Martin De Sanctis; Rodrigo Ramos Hospodar Felippe Valverde; Rafael Antonio Duarte Villa

• Advisor: Andre Roberto Martin

Abstract

The increasing process flow of goods and people started in the 1980s and expanded over the years of 1990 generated the utopic idea that the Nation-State borders and national sovereignty issues would eventually disappear. This context and the growing events surrounding non-state actors in the international scenario created an imaginary view where the State was so weak that would be incapable to face transnational criminal or terrorist organizations. However, as this study will present, not only the State is far from being a weak in fact it has been using such organizations to expand its power, maintain its sovereignty and conduct clandestine operation against rival nations, for that it was covered an extensive bibliography based on papers and books, leaked documents, interviews with people related to the area across the world and field observation. It demonstrated that the use of irregular actors, especially Organized Crime, is just another step in the evolution of warfare and an important proxy tool in international geopolitics. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/20955-5 - Cooperation between Nation-State and organized crime: a dark geopolitics
• Grantee: De Leon Petta Gomes da Costa
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate