Alexander Kupatadze
Room:
Office Hours
Tel:
Email: aak8
st-andrews.ac.uk
Biography
Alexander Kupatadze holds a MA degree in International Relations from Tbilisi State University, Georgia and MA degree in International Studies from Uppsala University, Sweden. Before coming to St. Andrews, he has extensively researched organized crime as an Associate Research Fellow at Georgia Office of American University¿s Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC). He has authored several articles and book chapters on criminality, smuggling and policing. Apart from writing dissertation, he is also an undergraduate tutor at the School of International Relations.
Thesis Title
'Transitions after Transitions': 'Coloured Revolutions' and Organized Crime in Post-Soviet Space. Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan
Supervisor
Dr. Rick Fawn
Research Interests
Democratisation and transition in post-Soviet Eurasia, corruption and informal politics, international relations of Caucasus and Central Asia, transnational crime
Publications
Book Chapters
'Criminal networks in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan and young male sportsmen' in M.D. Ulusoy (eds), Political violence, organized crime, terrorism and youth (IOS Press 2008)
'Political malfeasance and separatist conflicts: how corruption encourages violence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia' in Michaelene Cox, State of Corruption, State of Chaos: The Terror of Political Malfeasance (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008)
'Organized Crime and Separatism' in Louise I. Shelley et al., Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia (Routledge, 2007, as co-author)
'Policing and Police Reform in Georgia' in Louise I. Shelley et al., Organized Crime and Corruption in Georgia, (Routledge, 2007, as co-author)
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
'Organized Crime before and after Tulip Revolution: changing dynamics of upperworld-underworld networks' Central Asian Survey, 27:3, 2008
'Radiological smuggling and uncontrolled territories: the case of Georgia' Global Crime, 8:1, 2007
'The Impact of the Rose Revolution on Smuggling through Abkhazia and South Ossetia' Insight Turkey, 7:4, 2005
Other articles:
'Smuggling and organized crime in Kyrgyzstan', working paper, American University of Central Asia, August 2007 republished in Russian language by Scientific-analytical journal Akipress, October, 2007
'Crime and punishment - Georgian organized crime in Russia' Jane's Intelligence Review, July 2007
'Political-business-criminal nexus in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan'. Comparative analysis, working paper, American University of Central Asia, June 2007; republished in Russian language by Scientific-Analytical Journal Akipress, August, 2007
'Caucasian networks: Concerns mount over radiological smuggling', Jane's Intelligence Review, April 2007
'Georgian organised crime groups spread in Europe', Jane's Intelligence Review, April 2006
