1st Edition
Grand Corruption Curbing Kleptocracy Globally
This book examines the nature, causes, and consequences of grand corruption, showing how it can be assessed, measured, and attacked from within and without.
The volume brings together in a single, definitive text some of the best analyses on how to measure the costs of grand corruption and dissects the legal approaches and institutions to counter grand corruption and kleptocracy. Through a series of compelling country case studies, the book explores how corrupt political elites and public officials have stolen from the public purse for personal gain at the expense of their own people and their country’s social and economic development. It also highlights the role of financial and legal intermediaries in the West in laundering these ill-gotten gains. The volume then explores the impact of existing legal constraints to control corruption, some of which are still an evolutionary stage of development. It draws lessons from different national attempts to control corruption as well as regional and international initiatives. The final section of the volume discusses a variety of new anti-corruption initiatives, including efforts to establish an international anti-corruption court.
This book will be of much interest to students of grand corruption, global governance, foreign policy, International law and International Relations.
List of Contributors
Foreword, The Hon. Lloyd Axworthy
Preface, The Editors
Introduction, Measuring Grand Corruption: Inventing New Legal Barriers, Fen Osler Hampson and Robert I. Rotberg
Part I: Assessing Grand Corruption
1. Making It Count: The Case for ‘Big Data’ and Diagnostics in the Fight Against Grand Corruption, Alexandra Habershon
2. Measuring Grand Corruption, Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett
Part II: Regional and Country Examples
3. Winning the Anticorruption Battle in Africa, Dan Kuwali
4. Post-Soviet Oligarchs and Kleptocrats: Their Rise, Their Survival, and Western Complicity, Louise Shelley
5. Corruption in the United States and Ukraine, Eugene Vindman
6. Anti-corruption Strategies in the Western Balkans and North Macedonia, Slagjana Taseva
7. Improving Anticorruption Prospects in the Middle East & North Africa, Robert P. Beschel
8. Political Corruption and Natural Resources Management in Indonesia, Laode M Syarif
9. Mexico and Guatemala: Contrasts in Prosecuting Grand Corruption, Bonnie J. Palifka
10. The Governance of Corruption in the United Kingdom, Robert Barrington
Part III: Seizing Assets
11. Deterring Corruption through Asset Seizure: The Latest in Unexplained Wealth Orders, David Ireland
12. Leading By Example: Canada’s Approach to Seizing Frozen Assets and Holding Corrupt Leaders to Account, Robert J. Currie, Fen Osler Hampson, Allan Rock and Nicolas Eburne
13. Magnitsky Sanctions, Corruption, and Asset Recovery, Cecily Rose
14. Strengthening Existing International Anti-Corruption Frameworks and Institutions, Sabine E. Nölke
Part IV: Creating New Institutions
15. Defeating Kleptocracy Demands an International Anti-Corruption Court, Mark L. Wolf
16. The Nature and Functions of a Civil Chamber for the International Anti-Corruption Court, Allan Rock
17. Lessons to Be Learned from the International Criminal Court, Richard J. Goldstone Conclusions
18. Bringing Big Corruptors and Corruptees to Book, Robert I. Rotberg
19. Prescriptions & Recommendations, Fen Osler Hampson
Index
Biography
Robert I. Rotberg is the Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict, President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His most recent book is Overcoming the Oppressors (2023), and on corruption he published Anticorruption (2020) Corruption in Latin America (2019), Corruption in Canada at Home and Abroad (2019); and The Corruption Cure (2017). Rotberg is vice-chair of Integrity Initiatives International.
Fen Osler Hampson is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. The author/co-author of fifteen books, editor/co-editor of thirty-two volumes and more than 200 refereed publications, he is the President of the World Refugee & Migration Council.
