Mark Galeotti
Biographic Data
| ID | 502158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Galeotti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Galeotti |
| SIGNATURE | GALEOTTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8541-0548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Eingegangene Bücher
We Have Conversations’: The Gangster as Actor and Agent in Russian Foreign Policy
Representations of the role of organised crime in Russia range from characterising it as a dominant force to presenting it as controlled by the Kremlin. This has particular bearing on attempts to identify how, when and why it can be used as an instrument for activities abroad. Based on both secondary materials and interviews with practitioners and analysts in Russia and abroad, this article presents a picture that is essentially antagonistic, tra…
(Un)sichtbare Hand: Russlands Nachrichtendienste im Auslandseinsatz. Russia's intelligence services in action abroad
Russia’s intelligence services are more than intelligence agencies that gather information. They are executive organs. Their mission is to disrupt, distract, and demoralize. They act in concert on behalf of the state leadership and at the same time compete for the president’s favour. They execute his orders, but also strive to influence his world view. Their increasingly ruthless actions since 2014 anticipated Russia’s attack on Ukraine
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War
A tale of two councils: The changing roles of the security and state councils during the transformation period of modern Russian politics
There is general agreement that both the Security Council and State Council are significant institutions in Putin's Russia, but less clarity as to what this means, beyond that each provides opportunities for consultation with specific segments of the elite. Even this modest consensus was confounded in 2020, when both councils seemed to offer potential post-presidential roles for Putin himself, and underwent significant changes. This article descr…
Vory: Russia's Super Mafia
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascinating history of the vory v zakone , a group that has survived and thrived amid the changes brought on by Stalinism, the Cold War, the Afghan War, …
Winter is Coming
Words Apart: On Narratives and the Voids between them
Russia’s Domestic Security Wars. Putin’s Use of Divide and Rule against His Hardline Allies
Russia’s Domestic Security Wars. Putin’s Use of Divide and Rule against His Hardline Allies." Europe-Asia Studies, 71(3), pp. 510–511
We Need to Talk about Putin: How the West Gets Him Wrong
The mythical 'Gerasimov Doctrine' and the language of threat
This is a polemic. It is a polemic against the use of the term the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’ to describe a supposed dramatic turn in Russian strategic thinking. It is a polemic against the way that pseu
No Miracles. The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War
No Miracles. The Failure of Soviet Decision-Making in the Afghan War." Europe-Asia Studies, 70(9), pp. 1515–1516
Russian ‘hybrid warfare’: Resurgence and politicisation
Thankfully, the use of inverted commas around ‘hybrid warfare’ in the title of this useful and comprehensive book immediately signals that this is not some breathlessly apocalyptic account of a mythical ‘new way of war’, or of the chimera that is the (non-existent) ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’. Rather, this is a critical and thoughtful study of not just the military thinking around hybrid war, but also the extent to which it has become mobilized and poli…
Russian and Post-Soviet Organized Crime
A timely look at a widespread yet largely uninvestigated area of Russian life. Chapters include: consideration of the history and basis in culture for the organization of crime in Russia; the actions of emigres to the USA; and the development of modern sophistications of exchange and networking that currently blight privatization. Diverse perspectives, including comparative, structural and ethnic frameworks, give unprecedented national and intern…
Why Does Nobody Want to Join Russia in the Nineteenth Century
Trafficking justice: How Russian police enforce new laws, from crime to courtroom
Trafficking justice: how Russian police enforce new laws, from crime to courtroom." Policing and Society, 27(6), pp. 690–691
The Plaintive Voice of Russia's Embattled Foreign Policy Establishment
Corruption as a last resort: Adapting to the market in Central Asia. By Kelly M. McMann
Corruption is a transaction, a relationship involving the bribe-giver just as much as the bribe-taker. While we rightly concentrate on the latter, not least as they are often gatekeepers and other figures of authority, able to compel payment from those in their power, it is every bit as important to understand why people are willing, often grudgingly but sometimes eagerly, to hand over money for services or access. Corruption is also a stunted, m…
Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia's 'new way of war
Russia’s recent operations in Ukraine, especially the integrated use of militias, gangsters, information operations, intelligence, and special forces, have created a concern in the West about a ‘new way of war’, sometimes described as ‘hybrid’. However, not only are many of the tactics used familiar from Western operations, they also have their roots in Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian practice. They are distinctive in terms of the degree to which t…
Thieves of state: Why corruption threatens global security. By Sarah Chayes
Journal Article Thieves of state: why corruption threatens global security. By Sarah Chayes Get access Thieves of state: why corruption threatens global security. By Sarah Chayes. New York: W. W. Norton. 2015. 262pp. Index. £15.00. ISBN 978 0 39323 946 1. Available as e-book. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1New York University, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 91, Issue 4, Jul…
Global gangs: Street violence across the world. Edited by Jennifer Hazen and Dennis Rodgers
Of course, global gangs themselves are not global. Despite some suggestion that at least the Central American maras are part of transnational networks, not least thanks to the circular process of illegal migration into the United States and forced repatriation home, there seems little real evidence that even these are more than street gangs sharing common traditions, values and iconography. On the other hand, the street gang is found across the w…
Global Crime Today: The Changing Face of Organised Crime
Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too. This book recognizes that the new century will be defined in part by a struggle between an ‘upperworld’, defined by increasingly open economic systems and democratic politic…
Reorganising crime: Mafia and anti-mafia in post-Soviet Georgia, by Gavin Slade
Writing this review in Moscow seems wholly appropriate, given the extent to which the Russian police appear in many ways fixated on Georgians and the impact of Tbilisi’s anti-mafia campaign. Many o
Understanding the Modern Russian Police
Considering that the last comprehensive, serious and analytically meaningful English-language study of Russian policing was that by Louise Shelley in 1996, there is an urgent need for one that brin
Policing Economic Crime in Russia. From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatization
Hybrid, ambiguous, and non-linear? How new is Russia's 'new way of war
Russia’s recent operations in Ukraine, especially the integrated use of militias, gangsters, information operations, intelligence, and special forces, have created a concern in the West about a ‘new way of war’, sometimes described as ‘hybrid’. However, not only are many of the tactics used familiar from Western operations, they also have their roots in Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian practice. They are distinctive in terms of the degree to which t…
The search for peace in Afghanistan: From buffer state to failed state
Journal Article The search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state Get access The search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state. By Barnett R. Rubin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1996. 190pp. Index. £16.50. ISBN 0 300 06376 8. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 199…
Imperial decline: Russia's changing role in Asia
Journal Article Imperial decline: Russia's changing role in Asia Get access Imperial decline: Russia's changing role in Asia. Edited by Stephen Blankand Alvin Rubenstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1997. 296pp. Index. £46.95. ISBN0 822 31905 5. Pb.: £14.95. ISBN0 822 31897 0. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 4, Oct…
Elections and political order in Russia
Journal Article Elections and political order in Russia Get access Elections and political order in Russia. Edited by Peter Lentini. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. 292pp. Index. £30.00; ISBN 1858 660173. Pb.: £11.99; ISBN 1858 66018 1. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Page 618, https://doi.org/10.2…
Perestroika, Perestrelka, Pereborka: Policing Russia in a time of change
FOR ALL THE TALK of the USSR as a 'police state', little attention has traditionally been given to its police, especially when compared with the KGB in its various incarnations. Yet the evolution of the police apparatus, from the humble militsioner on the beat to the deployment of 'black berets', casts additional light on the political processes at work through the Gorbachev period and, given the developments which took place during and since the…
The Russian 'Mafiya: Consolidation and Globalisation
Organised crime emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union unexpectedly quickly and forcefully, rapidly 'colonising' the new economic and political structures. Hyperbole notwithstanding, the 'mafiya' does not 'own' the new Russia, but it is undoubtedly a powerful force, and one which has eagerly exploited new opportunities to cultivate strategic alliances in the global underworld and also to spread across the world. It is presently at an impor…
The Transdnistrian Connection: Big Problems from a Small Pseudo-state
Dr Mark Galeotti is Director of the Organised Russian & Eurasian Crime Research Unit at Keele University, UK, and presently Visiting Professor of Security Studies at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers -- Newark
We Have Conversations’: The Gangster as Actor and Agent in Russian Foreign Policy
Representations of the role of organised crime in Russia range from characterising it as a dominant force to presenting it as controlled by the Kremlin. This has particular bearing on attempts to identify how, when and why it can be used as an instrument for activities abroad. Based on both secondary materials and interviews with practitioners and analysts in Russia and abroad, this article presents a picture that is essentially antagonistic, tra…
The mythical 'Gerasimov Doctrine' and the language of threat
This is a polemic. It is a polemic against the use of the term the ‘Gerasimov Doctrine’ to describe a supposed dramatic turn in Russian strategic thinking. It is a polemic against the way that pseu
The Criminalisation of Russian State Security
While the Russian authorities may seek to talk up the role their security apparatus plays in combating organised crime, in fact, they are to a large extent falling prey to criminalisation. A culture of corruption and a decade of neglect have combined to create a situation in which not only do police, army, and security officers provide services to ‘civilian’ criminals but organised crime groupings have actually formed within them. These gangs ten…
Winter is Coming
Policing Economic Crime in Russia. From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatization
The KGB Campaign against Corruption in Moscow, 1982-1987
The world of the lower depths: Crime and punishment in Russian history
Organised crime in Russia draws upon a rich, anarchic and dangerous tradition rooted equally in the problems in policing this sprawling, impoverished and authoritarian empire and the folkways of the town and the village. Historically, two distinct criminal traditions emerged. In the countryside, the problems of overcoming peasant resistance (especially evident through their samosud lynch law) and trafficking in identifiable loot meant that gangs …
Criminal histories: An introduction
Organised crime is not a creation of the twentieth century but instead has a history dating back to the ancient world, as a shadowy underside to modernisation and order
Introduction: Global Crime Today
Transnational Organized Crime: Law Enforcement as a Global Battlespace
As society becomes more complex, organized, transnational and interconnected, so too do criminals, and we are witnessing the globalization and inter-penetration of organized crime. As ‘old’, and ‘new’, security worlds merge, transnational organized crime will represent a threat to the state on a variety of levels: as force multiplier, to terrorists and insurgents; as covert weapon in inter-state conflicts; degrading security assets; and subvertin…
The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
The fragmentation of Afghanistan: State formation and collapse in the international system
Journal Article The fragmentation of Afghanistan: state formation and collapse in the international system Get access The fragmentation of Afghanistan: state formation and collapse in the international system. By Barnett R. Rubin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1995. 378pp. Index. £24.00. ISBN 0 300 05963 9. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Internation…
Perestroika, Perestrelka, Pereborka: Policing Russia in a time of change
FOR ALL THE TALK of the USSR as a 'police state', little attention has traditionally been given to its police, especially when compared with the KGB in its various incarnations. Yet the evolution of the police apparatus, from the humble militsioner on the beat to the deployment of 'black berets', casts additional light on the political processes at work through the Gorbachev period and, given the developments which took place during and since the…
The Age of Anxiety: Security and Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
The search for peace in Afghanistan: From buffer state to failed state
Journal Article The search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state Get access The search for peace in Afghanistan: from buffer state to failed state. By Barnett R. Rubin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1996. 190pp. Index. £16.50. ISBN 0 300 06376 8. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 199…
Elections and political order in Russia
Journal Article Elections and political order in Russia Get access Elections and political order in Russia. Edited by Peter Lentini. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. 292pp. Index. £30.00; ISBN 1858 660173. Pb.: £11.99; ISBN 1858 66018 1. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Page 618, https://doi.org/10.2…
Out of Afghanistan: The inside story of the Soviet withdrawal
Journal Article Out of Afghanistan: the inside story of the Soviet withdrawal Get access Out of Afghanistan: the inside story of the Soviet withdrawal. By Diego Cordovezand Selig S. Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1995. 450pp. Index. £27.50. ISBN 0 19 506294 9. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, …
KGB: State within a state. The secret police and its hold on Russia's past, present and future
Journal Article KGB: state within a state. The secret police and its hold on Russia's past, present and future Get access KGB: state within a state. The secret police and its hold on Russia's past, present and future. By Yevgenia Albats. London: Tauris. 1995. 401pp. Index. Pb.: £9.95. ISBN 1 85043 995 8. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs,…
The fragmentation of Afghanistan: State formation and collapse in the international system
Journal Article The fragmentation of Afghanistan: state formation and collapse in the international system Get access The fragmentation of Afghanistan: state formation and collapse in the international system. By Barnett R. Rubin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1995. 378pp. Index. £24.00. ISBN 0 300 05963 9. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1University of Keele Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Internation…
Cops, spies and private eyes—changing patterns of Russian policing: A review article
Yevgenia Albats, KGB: State within a State. London: IB Tauris, 1995, 401 pp., £10.95. Mikhail Boltunov, “Al'fa”—sverkhsektretnyi otryad KGB. Moscow: Kedr, 1992, 208 pp. Martin Ebon, KGB: Death and Rebirth. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994, xii + 229 pp., $24.95. Amy Knight, Spies Without Cloaks. The KGB's Successors. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1996, xx+ 318 pp., £16.95. Hsi‐Huey Liang, The Rise of the Modern Police and the European State System from…
Imperial decline: Russia's changing role in Asia
Journal Article Imperial decline: Russia's changing role in Asia Get access Imperial decline: Russia's changing role in Asia. Edited by Stephen Blankand Alvin Rubenstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1997. 296pp. Index. £46.95. ISBN0 822 31905 5. Pb.: £14.95. ISBN0 822 31897 0. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 4, Oct…
The disintegration of the Soviet Union: A study in the rise and triumph of nationalism
Journal Article The disintegration of the Soviet Union: a study in the rise and triumph of nationalism Get access The disintegration of the Soviet Union: a study in the rise and triumph of nationalism. By Ben Fowkes. Basingstoke: Macmillan. 1996. 273pp. Index. £40.00. ISBN0 333 61453 4. Mark Galeotti Mark Galeotti 1Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 4, …
The Mafiya and the New Russia
The rise of the Russian mafiya , a distinctive form of organised crime, reflects more than just the temporary dislocations and uncertainties of the country's transition from a Soviet state to a free market democracy. Rooted in Russian tradition and Soviet practice, it is also a formidable obstacle to this evolution. This has serious implications for the new Russian polity: weakening central authority, diluting the state's monopoly of coercion, di…
Gorbachev and His Revolution
The Decay of the Soviet Union - Yurii Andropov and the Rise of Mikhail Gorbachev - Electing Gorbachev - Gorbachev the Technocrat: Uskoreniye and the Attempt to Modernise - Gorbachev the Reformer: Glasnost' and Perestroika - Gorbachev the Gambler: Democratisation - Gorbachev the Revolutionary: the End of the Soviet Union - Appendices - Chronology - Gallery of Main Characters - Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading - Index - Map
Organised crime and Russian security forces: Mafiya, Militia and Military
(2001). Organised crime and Russian security forces: mafiya, militia and military. Conflict, Security & Development: Vol. 1, No. 02, pp. 103-111
Transnational Organized Crime: Law Enforcement as a Global Battlespace
As society becomes more complex, organized, transnational and interconnected, so too do criminals, and we are witnessing the globalization and inter-penetration of organized crime. As ‘old’, and ‘new’, security worlds merge, transnational organized crime will represent a threat to the state on a variety of levels: as force multiplier, to terrorists and insurgents; as covert weapon in inter-state conflicts; degrading security assets; and subvertin…
The Russian 'Mafiya: Consolidation and Globalisation
Organised crime emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union unexpectedly quickly and forcefully, rapidly 'colonising' the new economic and political structures. Hyperbole notwithstanding, the 'mafiya' does not 'own' the new Russia, but it is undoubtedly a powerful force, and one which has eagerly exploited new opportunities to cultivate strategic alliances in the global underworld and also to spread across the world. It is presently at an impor…
The Transdnistrian Connection: Big Problems from a Small Pseudo-state
Dr Mark Galeotti is Director of the Organised Russian & Eurasian Crime Research Unit at Keele University, UK, and presently Visiting Professor of Security Studies at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers -- Newark
Introduction: Global Crime Today
Global Crime Today: The Changing Face of Organised Crime
Crime is recognized as a constant factor within human society, but in the twenty-first century organized crime is emerging as one of the distinctive security threats of the new world order. The more complex, organized and interconnected society becomes, its crime becomes too
The Criminalisation of Russian State Security
While the Russian authorities may seek to talk up the role their security apparatus plays in combating organised crime, in fact, they are to a large extent falling prey to criminalisation. A culture of corruption and a decade of neglect have combined to create a situation in which not only do police, army, and security officers provide services to ‘civilian’ criminals but organised crime groupings have actually formed within them. These gangs ten…
The world of the lower depths: Crime and punishment in Russian history
Organised crime in Russia draws upon a rich, anarchic and dangerous tradition rooted equally in the problems in policing this sprawling, impoverished and authoritarian empire and the folkways of the town and the village. Historically, two distinct criminal traditions emerged. In the countryside, the problems of overcoming peasant resistance (especially evident through their samosud lynch law) and trafficking in identifiable loot meant that gangs …
Criminal histories: An introduction
Organised crime is not a creation of the twentieth century but instead has a history dating back to the ancient world, as a shadowy underside to modernisation and order
The politics of security in modern Russia
Global Crime: Political Challenges and Responses
The world is movement. People migrate in response to labor needs and human disaster; money and memes flit between countries, and people move almost too quickly to track; the flow of energy and commodities bind consumers to providers in supply chains that neither party can usually envisage. Needless to say, this is as true of criminal activities as any other sphere of human endeavor, especially when it comes to trafficking drugs. According to the …
The KGB Campaign against Corruption in Moscow, 1982-1987
Policing Economic Crime in Russia. From Soviet Planned Economy to Privatization
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