Grand Corruption

Robert I. Rotberg is 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 has published Anticorruption (2020), Corruption in Canada at Home and Abroad (2019); Corruption in Latin America (2019), and The Corruption Cure (2017). Rotberg is the vice chair of Integrity Initiatives International.Fen Osler Hampson is the president of the World Refugee & Migration Council and chancellor’s professor and professor of international affairs at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He is the author/coauthor of 15 books and editor/coeditor of 32 volumes and more than 200 refereed publications, including The Two Michaels: Innocent Canadian Captives, High Stakes Espionage, and the US-China and Cyber War (2021) and International Negotiation and Political Narratives: A Comparative Study (2022).

• ForewordPrefaceIntroduction, Measuring Grand Corruption: Inventing New Legal BarriersPart I: Assessing Grand Corruption1. Making It Count: The Case for ‘Big Data’ and Diagnostics in the Fight Against Grand Corruption2. Measuring Grand CorruptionPart II: Regional and Country Examples3. Winning the Anticorruption Battle in Africa4. Post-Soviet Oligarchs and Kleptocrats: Their Rise, Their Survival, and Western Complicity5. Corruption in the United States and Ukraine6. Anti-corruption Strategies in the Western Balkans and North Macedonia7. Improving Anticorruption Prospects in the Middle East & North Africa8. Political Corruption and Natural Resources Management in Indonesia9. Mexico and Guatemala: Contrasts in Prosecuting Grand Corruption10. The Governance of Corruption in the United KingdomPart III: Seizing Assets11. Deterring Corruption through Asset Seizure: The Latest in Unexplained Wealth Orders12. Leading By Example: Canada’s Approach to Seizing Frozen Assets and Holding Corrupt Leaders to Account13. Magnitsky Sanctions, Corruption, and Asset Recovery14. Strengthening Existing International Anti-Corruption Frameworks and InstitutionsPart IV: Creating New Institutions15. Defeating Kleptocracy Demands an International Anti-Corruption Court16. The Nature and Functions of a Civil Chamber for the International Anti-Corruption Court,17. Lessons to Be Learned from the International Criminal Court18. Bringing Big Corruptors and Corruptees to Book19. Prescriptions and RecommendationsIndex