Organized transnational crime in the Black Sea Region: A geopolitical dilemma?

Trends in Organized Crime

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-29

  Roslycky, Lada L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Harvard Black Sea Security Program/National Security Program   (United States)

Author keywords

BESC: "Community of Democratic Choice" Gazprom; Black Sea; Corruption; Energy; Frozen conflicts; Geopolitical; Georgia; Moldova; Newly Independant States in the Black Sea Region; Nomenklatura; Post communist; Post Soviet political criminal nexus; Russia; SBU; Security; Separatism; Soviet; Stage evolutionary approach; Transnational organized crime; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950732501     PISSN: 10844791     EISSN: 19364830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12117-008-9061-x     Document Type: Article

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