Table of contents :

Content: Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO ORGANIZED CRIME --

1. Introduction --

Making sense of criminal power --

Entering a gallery of mirrors --

About this book --

2. The Strategic Organization of Crime --

What do we know about political-criminal interaction? --

Criminal strategy and governmental power --

Individual, network or organizational strategy? --

Social bandits and primitive criminal strategy --

Criminal capabilities --

Coercion --

Corruption --

Communications --

Command and control --

Conclusion --

pt. TWO EPISODES IN CRIMINAL STRATEGY --

3. Tammany: `How New York is Governed', 1869 --

1920 --

New York's government: machine made --

Guardians of the Revolution --

Gangs of New York --

The ghost in the machine --

Boss Tweed: Lord of the Kings --

A quest for influence --

Monarch of Manhattan --

Downfall --

Honest graft --

Conclusion --

4. Mafia Origins, 1859 --

1929 --

Origins^^^ Profiting from transition --

Organizing the Sicilian mafia --

Mafia migration --

The Black Hand --

Modern Family --

Illicit government --

The Iron Prefect --

Conclusion --

5. War and Peace in the American Mafia, 1920 --

1941 --

War --

Prohibition as a driver of innovation --

Civil war in the American mafia --

Mediation and betrayal --

Peace --

Five Families --

Coup d'etat --

A new governmental approach --

Consolidating power --

Racketeering and union power --

Gambling innovation and political finance --

Fall of a czar --

Playing kingmaker --

Mobbing up --

The Boy Scout --

Conclusion --

6. The Underworld Project, 1941 --

1943 --

`This is a war' --

Enlisting the underworld --

Regular guys --

Lucky's break --

From watchdog to attack dog --

Invading Italy --

Local knowledge --

Creating a fifth column --

Release and exile --

Conclusion --

7. Governing Sicily, 1942 --

1968 --

`A bargain has been struck^^^^ Black market rents --

"Wine and women and champagne' --

`Our good friends' --

Mafia separatism --

Confrontation, accommodation or withdrawal? --

The logic of mafia separatism --

Seeking Great Power protection --

Negotiating peace with the mafia --

A bandit army --

Settlement and betrayal --

Negotiating Sicily's transition --

A Sicilian political machine --

Wisdom of the Mob --

The sack of Palermo --

Conclusion --

8. The Cuba Joint Venture, 1933 --

1958 --

Buying into Cuba --

Rise of a strongman --

The `Batista Palace Gang' --

Gangsterismo --

A joint venture in government --

The Havana Mob --

Rebellion in the Mob --

Revolution in Cuba --

Conclusion --

9. The Blue Caribbean Ocean, 1959 --

1983 --

`A gangland style killing' --

Accommodation or confrontation? --

Internationalizing Murder, Inc. --

Seeking protection --

Subversion and its unintended consequences --

What went wrong at the Bay of Pigs?^^^s been struck^^^^ Learning from the Mob? --

Cold War wildcard: the Missile Crisis --

Did the magic button backfire? --

The Bahamas and the birth of offshore capitalism --

Invading Haiti --

Casino capitalism --

Ballots, not bullets --

Epilogue: a city by the Atlantic --

Conclusion --

pt. THREE THE MARKET FOR GOVERNMENT --

10. Strategic Criminal Positioning --

The market for government --

Intermediation: mafia logic --

Autonomy: warlordism and gang rule --

Merger: joint ventures --

Strategic alliances --

Terrorism as criminal positioning strategy --

Relocation and blue ocean strategy --

11. Innovation, Disruption and Strategy beyond the State --

Innovation and disruption --

Mexico: from narcocartels to narcocults --

The shifting sands of the Sahel --

The disruption of sovereignty --

Implications --

War and strategy beyond the state --

Combating criminal governmentality --

Managing criminal spoilers in peace and transition processes^^^uck^^^^ Envoi: the rise of criminal statecraft.