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View article: Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism
Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism Open
What is the global social context for the insertion of kleptocratic elites into the putatively liberal international order? Drawing on cases from our work on Eurasia and Africa, we sketch a concept of ‘transnational uncivil society’, which…
View article: Foreign Donations in the Higher Education Sector of the United States and the United Kingdom: Pathways for Reputation Laundering
Foreign Donations in the Higher Education Sector of the United States and the United Kingdom: Pathways for Reputation Laundering Open
We explore how the influx of foreign funding into the higher education sectors of the United States and United Kingdom has raised the challenge of “reputation laundering”—when foreign donors and individuals use donations to prestigious uni…
View article: Out of balance: Central Asia enters the post-Western era
Out of balance: Central Asia enters the post-Western era Open
The terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001, shook the world but were of special importance to post-Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.Overnight, the region went from a relatively…
View article: Out of balance: Central Asia enters the post-Western era
Out of balance: Central Asia enters the post-Western era Open
The terrorist attacks on the US on September 11, 2001, shook the world but were of special importance to post-Soviet Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.Overnight, the region went from a relatively…
View article: Revising order or challenging the balance of military power? An alternative typology of revisionist and status-quo states
Revising order or challenging the balance of military power? An alternative typology of revisionist and status-quo states Open
Unimensional accounts of revisionism – those that align states along a single continuum from supporting the status quo to seeking a complete overhaul of the international system – miss important variation between a desire to alter the bala…
View article: The Rise of Kleptocracy: Laundering Cash, Whitewashing Reputations
The Rise of Kleptocracy: Laundering Cash, Whitewashing Reputations Open
A growing body of analysis has explored how kleptocrats systematically capture and loot their domestic state institutions, but scholars and policy makers have paid less attention to how globalization enables grand corruption, as well as th…
View article: Laundering Cash, White Washing Reputations
Laundering Cash, White Washing Reputations Open
A growing body of analysis has explored how kleptocrats systematically capture and loot their domestic state institutions, but scholars and policy makers have paid less attention to how globalization enables grand corruption, as well as th…
View article: Transnational Corruption and the Globalized Individual
Transnational Corruption and the Globalized Individual Open
We present a new, more transnational, networked perspective on corruption. It is premised on the importance of professional intermediaries who constitute networks facilitating cross-border illicit finance, the blurring of legal and illegal…
View article: Grounding the Backlash: Regional Security Treaties, Counternorms, and Human Rights in Eurasia
Grounding the Backlash: Regional Security Treaties, Counternorms, and Human Rights in Eurasia Open
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View article: How the Democratic Tide Rolled Back
How the Democratic Tide Rolled Back Open
Twenty-five years ago the world entered a new era. The Soviet Union had just collapsed, the United States had assumed the leadership of a proclaimed new world order, and liberal democratic capitalism no longer had a viable global challenge…
View article: How today's despots and kleptocrats hide their stolen wealth
How today's despots and kleptocrats hide their stolen wealth Open
International watchdogs and scholarly writings tend to suggest that corruption is a national, bordered phenomenon best assessed and countered on a state-by-state basis. This is wrong. We argue that the conventional understanding of grand c…