Indulging kleptocracy: British service providers, postcommunist elites, and the enabling of corruption

In recent decades, there has been an upsurge of western professionals providing financial and legal services to kleptocrats Russia and Eurasia. The United Kingdom has provided more such services than any other nation, and the effect has been to undermine democracy and good governance in both the UK...

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Hauptverfasser: Heathershaw, John (VerfasserIn), Prelec, Tena (VerfasserIn), Mayne, Tom (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:In recent decades, there has been an upsurge of western professionals providing financial and legal services to kleptocrats Russia and Eurasia. The United Kingdom has provided more such services than any other nation, and the effect has been to undermine democracy and good governance in both the UK and in the countries these elites come from. By cataloging through rich case studies of how kleptocrats offshored their wealth and exploited both financial deregulation and the UK's punitive libel regime, this book demonstrates what is at stake politically in the globalization of authoritarian regime practices
Beschreibung:pages illustrations
ISBN:9780197688229
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197688229.001.0001

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