Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, Kostovicova, Denisa 
ORCID: 0000-0002-6243-4379, Escobar, Mariana and Bjelica, Jelena
(2015)
Organised crime and international aid subversion: evidence from Colombia and Afghanistan.
Third World Quarterly, 36 (10).
pp. 1887-1905.
ISSN 0143-6597
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Abstract
Scholarly attempts to explain aid subversion in post-conflict contexts frame the challenge in terms of corrupt practices and transactions disconnected from local power struggles. Also, they assume a distinction between organised crime and the state. This comparative analysis of aid subversion in Colombia and Afghanistan reveals the limits of such an approach. Focusing on relations that anchor organised crime within local political, social and economic processes, we demonstrate that organised crime is dynamic, driven by multiple motives, and endogenous to local power politics. Better understanding of governance arrangements around the organised crime-conflict nexus which enable aid subversion is therefore required.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ctwq20#.Vaeyj_Nwb5o |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 Southseries Inc. |
| Divisions: | European Institute Government Conflict and Civil Society |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2015 13:41 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jan 2024 05:48 |
| Projects: | RGG-U257 |
| Funders: | Agence Française de Développement |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/62748 |
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