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Combatting organised crime and terrorism in Central Asia

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Peer-reviewed

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Authors

Wilson, E 

Abstract

This paper examines the shift away from the traditional distinction between organised crime and terrorist groups towards their conceptual convergence under the crime-terror nexus narrative in the context of international security and development policy in post-Soviet Central Asia. It assesses the empirical basis for the crime-terror and state-crime nexus in three Central Asian countries – Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – and argues that the exclusion of the state from the analytical framework undermines the relevance of the crime-terror paradigm for policy-making.

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Keywords

terrorism, crime-terror nexus, Central Asia, democratic governance, organised crime, criminal state capture

Journal Title

Journal of Financial Crime

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Journal ISSN

1359-0790

Volume Title

25

Publisher

Emerald