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Governance Beyond the Law

The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sheds light on a multiform phenomenon which is unfolding on a global scale
  • Challenges and complements the literature that draws on a “crime and justice” approach
  • Critically explores how development and governance produced through formal bodies are questioned, challenged and renegotiated through informal mechanisms and institutions

Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi

About this book

This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold transnationally and, in particular, how and why they have been/are being progressively criminalized and integrated into the construction of global and local dangerhoods; how the above-mentioned phenomena are embedded into a post-liberal security order; and whether they shape new states of exception and generate moral panic whose ultimate function is regulatory, disciplinary and one of crafting practices of political ordering.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Law & Government, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Abel Polese

  • Institute of International Studies, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Abel Polese

  • Centre Émile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, Pessac, France

    Alessandra Russo

  • DIRPOLIS Institute of Law Politics and Development, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Francesco Strazzari

About the editors

Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction of Dublin City University, Ireland. 


Alessandra Russo is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Centre Emile Durkheim, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.


Francesco Strazzari is Associate Professor of International Relations at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy, and Adjunct Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway. 


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