Privatizing the police-state
| Titel: | Privatizing the police-state : the case of Poland / Maria Loś and Andrzej Zybertowicz |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Houndmills : Macmillan [u. a.], 2000 |
| Umfang: | XX, 270 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 0333736133 ; 0312231504 |
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- List of Tables
- p. x
- List of Case Studies
- p. xi
- Foreword
- p. xii
- Acknowledgements
- p. xvii
- List of Abbreviations
- p. xviii
- Part I
- Opening Considerations
- p. 2
- 1
- Introduction
- p. 3
- 2
- Conceptual and Methodological Issues
- p. 10
- Metaphors of systemic change in East/Central Europe
- p. 10
- Covert action: the neglected dimension of governing
- p. 14
- Privatizing the police-state
- p. 19
- Methodological approach and sources of information
- p. 21
- Structure of the book
- p. 22
- Part II
- The 1980s: The Post-Totalitarian Party/Police-State?
- p. 25
- 3
- Anatomy of the Police-State
- p. 27
- The missing dimension
- p. 27
- Operational surveillance and control
- p. 31
- The Ministry of the Interior (MSW)
- p. 32
- The Ministry of Defence (MON)
- p. 41
- Inter-Ministry relations
- p. 42
- The secret services and the command economy
- p. 43
- The Party and the police
- p. 45
- The police-state: macro and micro power relations
- p. 47
- 4
- State Crime and Cover-Up Operations
- p. 60
- Martial law of December 1981
- p. 60
- Murders by the police
- p. 64
- The cover-up of the Security Service's criminal enrichment schemes
- p. 71
- The endowment of the nomenklatura
- p. 72
- The rule of law and the police-state
- p. 75
- 5
- The Role of the Secret Services in the Solidarity Revolution
- p. 77
- Points of departure
- p. 77
- Covert methods of influencing social movements: the relevance of Gary T. Marx's model
- p. 79
- 1980-5: Attempts at eradication or subjugation of the opposition
- p. 82
- Harnessing the opposition: post-1985 Poland as a testing ground for the Soviet Bloc; the role of the secret services in effecting and steering the Round Table talks
- p. 89
- The secret services and their legacy in later stages of the transformation
- p. 101
- Recapitulation
- p. 102
- Part III
- After Communism: The Posthumous Life of the Police-State
- p. 105
- 6
- The Capital Conversion Process
- p. 107
- Transfer of power?
- p. 107
- Power conversion
- p. 111
- Multiple capital conversion
- p. 113
- 7
- Transforming the Police-State
- p. 124
- The context
- p. 124
- The Ministry of the Interior, the police and the secret services
- p. 125
- The procuracy
- p. 133
- The judiciary
- p. 133
- Prisons
- p. 136
- The Party
- p. 137
- Iustration/decommunization
- p. 145
- The Lustration debate
- p. 150
- 8
- Privatizing the Police-State
- p. 154
- Introduction
- p. 154
- The privatization of secret files
- p. 155
- The private security industry
- p. 159
- Operational aspects of large-scale economic scams
- p. 164
- The privatization of the police-state and post-communist secret services
- p. 179
- Final statement
- p. 184
- 9
- The Failure to Prosecute Communist Crimes
- p. 186
- Prosecution
- p. 186
- The Statute of Limitations
- p. 190
- The courts' access to secret files
- p. 192
- Parliamentary privilege
- p. 193
- The past is history
- p. 195
- Part IV
- Conclusion
- p. 199
- 10
- The Globalization of the Post-Communist Transformation
- p. 201
- The post-industrial techno-cultural revolution
- p. 201
- The post-national and postmodern 'state of mind'
- p. 202
- The globalization of the governance and economy
- p. 205
- The globalization of organized crime
- p. 208
- The globalization and marketization of spying
- p. 211
- The virtualization of capital
- p. 213
- 11
- Epilogue
- p. 216
- Preamble
- p. 216
- Recapitulation of findings
- p. 217
- The privatized police-state: concepts and context
- p. 226
- Notes
- p. 232
- References
- p. 245
- Index
- p. 264
