Experienced scholar and consultant combining theoretical and practical skills of analysis, intelligence and policy advise with expertise in informal networks, organized crime, corruption, illicit trade, crime-terror nexus, policing and public sector reform
Expert with more than 18 years of research and consulting experience in post-Soviet Eurasia. Academically affiliated with world leading institutions including Oxford, Princeton and King’s College London. He has advised various governments and international organisations on various issues related to crime and corruption in Eurasia. Areas of expertise include:
- Country reports on countries of expertise
-Organized crime and mafia networks
-Police and security agencies
-Courts and criminal justice system
- Drugs trade
- Human trafficking and human smuggling
-Public sector reform
-Penitentiary system
Have done field research on crime and corruption related issues in all countries of expertise. Advised government of Kyrgyzstan in fighting against organised crime (2012);
Have authored more than 10 reports for international organisations about crime, corruption, and policing in post-Soviet Eurasia; Produced more than 50 due diligence reports on business entities in Eurasia for business intelligence companies in USA, UK and Canada; helped several law firms with asylum reports.
• Corruption and Illicit Tobacco Trade
Kupatadze, A., 2021, In: Journal of Illicit Economies and Development. 3, 2, p. 217-223 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.31389/jied.94
• Accounting for diverging paths in most similar cases: corruption in Baltics and Caucasus
Kupatadze, A., Mar 2017, In: CRIME LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE. 67, 2, p. 187-208 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-016-9658-y
• Organized Crime and the State in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Kupatadze, A., 2017, Paradox of Power: The Logics of State Weakness in Eurasia (Central Eurasia in Context) . University of Pittsburgh Press Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter› peer-review
• Popular Punitiveness? Punishment and Attitudes to Law in Post-Soviet Georgia
Slade, G. & Kupatadze, A., 2017, In: EUROPE ASIA STUDIES. 69, 6, p. 879-896 18 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2017.1357165
• Georgia’s Break with the Past
Kupatadze, A., Jan 2016, In: JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY. 27, 1, p. 110-123 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2016.0003
• Political corruption in Eurasia: Understanding collusion between states, organized crime and business
Kupatadze, A., 1 May 2015, In: THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY. 19, 2, p. 198-215 Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480615574404
- Kyrgyzstan - A virtual narco-state?
Kupatadze, A., Nov 2014, In: International Journal of Drug Policy. 25, 6, p. 1178-1185