TY  - JOUR 
TI  - Trajectories of the Discourse on Transnational Organized Crime : Biopolitical Wars and Global Civil Society Conceptualizing Transnational Organized Crime
PB  - University of Siena & University of Trento
PY  - 2001
issn 2039-8573
AB  - The article aims to understand how the dominant conceptualization of transnational crime legitimates non-traditional
forms of warfare at the global level while itself constituting the idea of global civil society. It is argued that since this discourse
defines transnational crime as a threat to global society, it makes politically viable the deployment of policing and
military interventions in defence of the world population. In order to expose this, this article reconstructs the trajectories
of the discourse on organized criminality. The article first analyses the emergence of the discourse in the United States
during the 1950s, afterwards analysing it as an issue of transnational scope during the last two decades. Thus the aim
here is to underline the importance that a phenomenon such as crime has had on the governance at a global level.
KW  - Delincuencia organizada
KW  - Guerras
KW  - Ciencia política
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Crimen organizado
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10906/82336
ER  -