MAPS – Master in Public Policy and Social Change
Workshop: Globalization and Transnational Crime
Prof. Fabio Armao
University of Turin
Course description:
The workshop will be structured in two main sessions: the first devoted to debate the
definition of transnational crime, and how transnational crime is correlated both to
globalization processes and to the changing role of the state in the post-Cold war era;
the second to better analyze what is considered by now the most innovative model of
transnational crime, that of Latin America. Finally, in a third session, the growing
mobility of transnational crime will be analyzed.
Organization:
The workshop will be organized in three meetings: the first and the second of four
hours, and the third of two hours.
Session 1
Problems of definition
Armao, Fabio. 2012. Bringing violence back in: State and organized crime in a post-bipolar world. A
research agenda.
Armao, Fabio. 2009. The market of violence: From monopoly to free competition. In Giampiero
Giacomello, and R. Craig Nation (Eds.), Security in the West. Evolution of a concept (101-133).
Milano: Vita e Pensiero.
Davis, Diane E. 2009. Non-state armed actors, new imagined communities, and shifting patterns of
sovereignty and insecurity in the modern world. Contemporary Security Policy, 30 (2), 221-245.
Davis, Diane E. 2010a. Irregular armed forces, shifting patterns of commitment, and fragmented
sovereignty in the developing world. Theory and Society, 39 (3-4), 397-413.
Tilly, Charles. 1985. War making and state making as organized crime. In Peter B. Evans, Dietrich
Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol (Eds.), Bringing the state back in (169-191). Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Tilly, Charles. 2010. Cities, states, and trust networks. Chapter 1 of Cities and states in world history,
Theory and Society, 39 (3-4), 265-280.
Session 2
The case for Mexico and Central America
Bunker, Robert J., and Sullivan, John P. 2010. Cartel evolution revisited: third phase cartel potentials
and alternative futures in Mexico. Small Wars and Insurgencies, 21 (1), 30-54.
Cruz, José Miguel. 2011. Criminal violence and democratization in Central America: The survival of
the violent state. Latin American Politics and Society, 53 (4), 1-33.
Cruz, José Miguel. 2010. Central American maras: From youth street gangs to transnational protection
rackets. Global Crime, 11 (4), 379-398.
Jütersonke, Oliver, Muggah, Roger, and Rodgers, Dennis. 2009. Gangs, urban violence, and security
interventions in Central America. Security Dialogue, 40 (4-5), 373-397.
Williams, Phil. 2009. Illicit markets, weak states and violence: Iraq and Mexico. Crime, Law & Social
Change, 52 (3), 323-336.
Session 3
The routes of transnational crime
Morselli, Carlo, Turcotte, Mathilde, and Tenti, Valentina. 2012. The mobility of criminal groups.
Global Crime, 12 (3), 165-188.
Varese, Federico. 2012. Mafia movements: A framework for understanding the mobility of mafia
groups. Global Crime, 12 (3), 218-231