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Franken, Luce (2023)

The Environmental Toll: Transnational Organized Criminal Networks in the Amazon Region and Their Impact on Brazil

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

This study seeks to explore the linkages between organised crime and environmental change in the Amazon region, specifically zooming in on the Brazilian Amazonas. This study focuses on two aspects of this relationship. First, the relationship between state-making and crime, in particular the Brazilian state and crime, to show how ‘organised crime’ emerges as an important constituent of state-making rather than as an anomaly to it. To understand how organized crime and environmental change tie together, the analysis of state-making and governance in the Amazon region is needed. Thereafter, a systematic approach will be adopted to answer this question of the relationship between organised crime and environmental change, breaking the findings down into four categories of, Type, Method, Location, and Consequence. In the thesis, I examine how each of these shapes the relationship between organised crime and environmental change in the Amazon.

Transnational Organized Crime (TOC)

Brazil

Deforestation

State-Making

War on Drugs (WoD)

South America

Amazon

Conflict

Author

Franken, Luce

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Global Conflict in the Modern Era

Supervisors

Thakur, V.
Milevski, L.

ECTS Credits

15

Language

en