Please join us for a conference at Barnard College on criminal governance in comparative perspective. More details and program forthcoming.
Does the presence of criminal organizations always lead to insecurity, violence, and disorder? The premise of this conference is that criminal organizations engage in surprisingly diverse forms of institution building that produce equally different forms of governance. Criminal governance challenges many of our core assumptions about the underpinnings of democracy, the nature of the State, and the conditions that produce order and development. During the conference a diverse group of scholars will present cutting-edge research on the ways that criminal groups govern territories, economies, communities, and political processes. Panels will focus on the origins, dynamics, and consequences of governance by mafias, gangs, drug trafficking organizations and other criminal groups in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America.
To RSVP, please contact Professor Eduardo Moncada (
[email protected]).
This event is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of our Russian Studies & Policy event series.
SPEAKERS
Enrique Desmond Arias, Baruch College
Ana Arjona, Northwestern University
Claudio Beato, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Sarah Daly, University of Notre Dame
Gustavo Flores-Macías, Cornell University
Laurent Fourchard, Sciences Po
Laurent Gayer, Sciences Po
Diana Kim, Georgetown University
Beatriz Magaloni, Stanford University
Eduardo Moncada, Barnard College, Columbia University
Svetlana Stephenson, London Metropolitan University
Yuhki Tajima, Georgetown University
Federico Varese, Oxford University
Deborah Yashar, Princeton University
EVENT SPONSORS
Office of the Provost, Barnard College, Columbia University
The Alliance Program
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Institute of Latin American Studies
The Harriman Institute
