The Enablers - How West Supports Kleptocrats Corruption Endangering Our Democracy

Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl shows that curbing their activities for their kleptocratic clients is critical to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability.

List of contents

1:Dirty Money 2:Then and Now
3: The Scale of Grand Corruption
4:Blind Bankers
5:Slumbering Regulators
6:Klepto-Debt
7:Klepto-Investing
8:Secret Dealings
9:Corrupt Trade
10: Arms and Graft
11: Democracy at Risk
12: Ticking the Boxes is Not Enough
13:Enforcement
14:In the Public Interest
Selected Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Chapter Notes

About the author

Frank Vogl, former senior World Bank official and foreign business and economics correspondent for The Times of London, teaches a graduate course at Georgetown University titled, Corruption, Conflict Resolution and Security. He is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Partnership for Transparency Fund, and the co-founder and former Vice Chair of Transparency International, the global non-governmental anti-corruption organization. He served as President of Vogl Communications, Inc., an international communications consulting firm, from 1990 to 2018.

Summary

Authoritarian regimes in many countries, and the men that lead them, depend on the international management of licit and illicit funds under their control. Frank Vogl shows that curbing their activities for their kleptocratic clients is critical to secure democracy, enhance national security, and ensure international financial stability.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Vogl, Vogl Frank
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781538162828
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6282-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Politics & government, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct