Government of the Shadows : Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Parapolitics, Shadow Governance and Criminal Sovereignty -- Part I Theoretical Perspectives -- 1 Deconstructing the Shadows -- 2 Democratic State vs. Deep State: Approaching the Dual State of the West -- 3 Governing Through Globalised Crime -- 4 Prospering from Crime: Money Laundering and Financial Crises -- 5 The Shadow Economy: Markets, Crime and the State1 -- 6 Transnational Crime and Global Illicit Economies -- 7 Redefining Statehood in the Global Periphery -- Part II Case Studies -- 8 The Sicilian Mafia: Parastate and Adventure Capitalism -- 9 Drugs, Anti-communism and Extra- legal Repression in Mexico -- 10 Parapolitics and Afghanistan -- 11 From Drug Lords to Warlords: Illegal Drugs and the ' Unintended' Consequences of Drug Policies in Colombia -- 12 Covert Netherworld: Clandestine Services and Criminal Syndicates in Shaping the Philippine State -- 13 Beyond Democratic Checks and Balances: The ' Propaganda Due' Masonic Lodge and the CIA in Italy's First Republic -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

An expose of what really goes on behind the closed doors of state power.

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