Peace Operations and Organized Crime
Peace operations are increasingly on the front line in the international communitys fight against organized crime. This book explores how, in some cases, peace operations and organized crime are clear enemies, while in others they may become tacit allies.
The threat posed by organized crime to international and human security has become a matter of considerable strategic concern for national and international decision-makers, so it is somewhat surprising how little thought has been devoted to addressing the complex relationship between organized crime and peace operations.
This volume addresses this gap, questioning the emerging orthodoxy that portrays organized crime as an external threat to the liberal peace championed by western and allied states and delivered through peace operations. Based upon a series of case studies, it concludes that organized crime is both a potential enemy and a potential ally of peace operations, and argues for the need to distinguish between strategies to contain organized crime and strategies to transform the political economies in which it flourishes. The editors argue for the development of intelligent, transnational and transitional law-enforcement that can make the most of organized crime as a potential ally for transforming political economies, while at the same time containing the threat it presents as an enemy to building effective and responsible states.
The book will be of great interest to students of peace-building, peace and conflict studies, organized crime, security studies and IR in general.
James Cockayne is Co-Director of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation in New York. He has worked with governmental, business and civil society partners around the world on responses to armed non-state actors.
Adam Lupel is Editor at the International Peace Institute, New York. He has a PhD in Political Theory from the New School for Social Research, New York, and is the author of Globalization and Popular Sovereignty: Democracys Transnational Dilemma (Routledge, 2009).
Cass Series on Peacekeeping
General Editor: Michael Pugh
This series examines all aspects of peacekeeping, from the political, operational and legal dimensions to the developmental and humanitarian issues that must be dealt with by all those involved with peacekeeping in the world today.
Beyond the Emergency
Development within UN Peace Missions
Edited by Jeremy Ginifer
The UN, Peace and Force
Edited by Michael Pugh
Mediating in Cyprus
The Cypriot Communities and the United
Nations
Oliver P. Richmond
Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies
Edited by Jim Whitman
Peacekeeping and Public Information
Caught in the Crossfire
Ingrid A. Lehmann
The Evolution of US Peacekeeping Policy
under Clinton
A Fairweather Friend?
Michael G. MacKinnon
Peacebuilding and Police Reform
Edited by Tor Tanke Holm and Espen Barth
Eide
Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution
Edited by Tom Woodhouse and Oliver
Ramsbotham
Managing Armed Conflicts in the 21st
Century
Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Chandra Lekha
Sriram
Women and International Peacekeeping
Edited by Louise Olsson and Torunn L.
Tryggestad
Recovering from Civil Conflict
Reconciliation, Peace and Development
Edited by Edward Newman and Albrecht
Schnabel
Mitigating Conflict
The Role of NGOs
Edited by Henry F. Carey and Oliver P.
Richmond
Ireland and International Peacekeeping
19602000
A Study of Irish Motivation
Katsumi Ishizuka
Peace Operations after 11 September 2001
Edited by Thierry Tardy
Confronting Past Human Rights Violations
Justice vs Peace in Times of Transition
Chandra Lekha Sriram
The National Politics of Peacekeeping in the
Post-Cold War Era
Edited by David S. Sorensen and Pia Christina
Wood
A UN Legion
Between Utopia and Reality
Stephen Kinloch-Pichat
United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-
Cold War Era
John Terence ONeill and Nicholas Rees
The Military and Negotiation
The role of the soldier-diplomat
Deborah Goodwin
NATO and Peace Support Operations
19911999
Policies and doctrines
Henning-A. Frantzen
International Sanctions
Between words and wars in the global system
Edited by Peter Wallensteen and Carina
Staibano
Nordic Approaches to Peace Operations
A New Model in the Making?
Peter Viggo Jakobsen
Kosovo between War and Peace
Nationalism, peacebuilding and international
trusteeship
Edited by Tonny Brems Knudsen and Carsten
Bagge Laustsen
Clinton, Peacekeeping and Humanitarian
Interventionism
Rise and fall of a policy
Leonie G. Murray
Political Ethics and the United Nations
Dag Hammarskjld as Secretary-General
Manuel Frhlich
Statebuilding and Justice Reform
Post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan
Matteo Tondini
Rethinking the Liberal Peace
External models and local alternatives
Edited by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Peace Operations and Organized Crime
Enemies or allies?
Edited by James Cockayne and Adam Lupel
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