- The 7th ECPR General Conference took place at Sciences Po Bordeaux, Domaine Universitaire.
4-7 September, 2013
Link: https://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?SectionID=87&EventID=5
Section: Transnational Organised Crime in a Globalised World
Transnational organised crime is undoubtedly considered and perceived as a dangerous threat. The political and academic consensus, however, stops here, as the way towards a common definition and authentic multilateral policies and strategy seems to be very long and troubled. The major transformations dealing with global security and its political, economic, cultural and social implications on the international community are part of the scholarly debate. Nevertheless, any serious and competent discussion on TOC - aiming at being also policy-oriented – should consider a larger set of variables (ability to perform at a global level, mobility, organisational capacity), several actors (convergence with terrorism, paramilitaries, corrupted state officials and representatives), several levels of action (economics, society, virtual space, politics), and of governance (national, bilateral and multilateral cooperation). Furthermore, a deep interdisciplinary approach, as well as a genuine dialogue with practitioners, would constitute the ideal framework for such overall analysis. The section wishes to contribute to this discussion by welcoming theoretical papers, as well as empirical and/or comparative ones.
The idea for this section stemmed from discussions within the ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime, which revealed the need to provide a meeting point where graduate students, advanced researchers, established academics and practitioners could discuss their projects. Considering the disciplinary diversity existing in this area, this section could be instrumental in building bridges across academic traditions by considering theoretical and methodological frameworks, research questions and empirical data.
Section Chair
Helena Carrapico
Aston University
Section Co-Chair
Daniela Irrera
Università di Catania
Panel
| P230 | Organised Crime Governance and Organisational Studies | View Panel Details |
| P231 | New Trends in Transnational Organised Crime: A Look into Cyber Crime and Trafficking of Human Beings | View Panel Details |
| P274 | Putting OC in Place: How Situational Crime Prevention can Inform Enhanced Policy Design | View Panel Details |
| P346 | The Internal/External Continuum in Transnational Organised Crime | View Panel Details |
| P375 | The Role of Transnational Organised Crime in the Context of States in Transition/ States in Crisis | View Panel Details |
| P391 | Transnational Organised Crime and ‘Gangster Politics’: Exploring Synergies between the Licit and Illicit Worlds | View Panel Details |
| P392 | Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism: Different Peas, Same Pod? | View Panel Details |
| P393 | Transnational Organised Crime, Corruption and State Infiltration | View Panel Details |