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7
Autumn
15
The field of international relations and political science has given little attention to organised crime and corruption, which has become a focus of interest within these disciplines only recently. From an international relations perspective, it is worth investigating how organised crime is embedded in a larger political context, how politics interconnects with criminality on national and international levels and how globalisation affects the internationalisation of crime and corruption. Organised crime has indeed gone global, reached the scale of a multi-billion pound business and hence has been described as the growing threat to international security. At the same time criminal and terrorist networks have increasingly interacted with each other leading to the convergence in tactics and activities.
The module will cover definitional and conceptual issues related with organised crime, corruption and terrorism; the impact of globalisation on the internationalisation of organised crime; the nexus and interaction between crime, corruption and terrorism; variations in crime-terror nexus across different parts of the world; the anti-crime and anti-terrorism policies and other issue.
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