
Unmasked
Corruption in the West
by Laurence Cockcroft and Anne-Christine Wegener
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Pub Date 28 Feb 2017 | Archive Date 28 Feb 2017
Description
Has the scale of corruption in the West been underestimated?
Corruption in the US and Europe is beginning to dominate headlines. In the recent US election, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was damaged by a perceived lack of transparency, with questions looming over the Clinton Foundation and the controversy surrounding the private email server. And despite President-elect Trump’s new promise to ‘Drain the Swamp’, he has previously called the key Foreign Corrupt Practices a ‘horrible law’. 2016 saw both the Panama Papers - arguably the most significant revelation ever of the scale of corruption among the global elite - and the FIFA corruption scandal.
Here, two world experts on anti-corruption reveal the massive and hitherto unknown scale of the problem. Their timely book raises many urgent questions for the changing political world in which we now live: namely, why has anti-corruption legislation has not been more effective? Are Europe and the US genuinelyserious about fighting corruption and if so, can they work together to do so?
Laurence Cockcroft is a Development Economist and Founder of Transparency International, the global civil society organization against corruption. He is the author of Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World.
Anne-Christine Wegener is an anti-corruption consultant. She was previously Deputy Director and Programme Manager at Transparency International UK, focusing on Defence and Security.
Corruption in the US and Europe is beginning to dominate headlines. In the recent US election, Hillary Clinton’s campaign was damaged by a perceived lack of transparency, with questions looming over the Clinton Foundation and the controversy surrounding the private email server. And despite President-elect Trump’s new promise to ‘Drain the Swamp’, he has previously called the key Foreign Corrupt Practices a ‘horrible law’. 2016 saw both the Panama Papers - arguably the most significant revelation ever of the scale of corruption among the global elite - and the FIFA corruption scandal.
Here, two world experts on anti-corruption reveal the massive and hitherto unknown scale of the problem. Their timely book raises many urgent questions for the changing political world in which we now live: namely, why has anti-corruption legislation has not been more effective? Are Europe and the US genuinelyserious about fighting corruption and if so, can they work together to do so?
Laurence Cockcroft is a Development Economist and Founder of Transparency International, the global civil society organization against corruption. He is the author of Global Corruption: Money, Power and Ethics in the Modern World.
Anne-Christine Wegener is an anti-corruption consultant. She was previously Deputy Director and Programme Manager at Transparency International UK, focusing on Defence and Security.
Advance Praise
‘If you care about transparency and a clean society, put this book on your reading list.’- David E. Kaplan, Global Investigative Journalism Network
‘A tour de force’- Simon Taylor, Co-founder of Global Witness
‘An important book on an uncomfortable subject’- Paul Collier, author of Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
'Anyone who has a working or other interest in banking and big business in general, organised crime, and sport, besides fraud prevention in particular, can profit from reading one or more chapters. These topics and more are covered in reports on the Transparency International website; but the authors have done a service by bringing together their argument inside book covers...the layout and writing style of the book feel fresh and altogether free of the stodginess that could so easily have attended such a worthy subject. And the quite low price, compared with some books, is welcome too, to encourage non-specialists into buying.'- Mark Rowe, Professional Security Magazine
‘an important work that provides a bedrock of understanding…highly readable…Unmasked comes as at important time, just as the world is turning in on itself. The West should learn the lessons that are described so well in the book and use this difficult period to ensure that the first gear in which it has for so long been engaged is kicked into second and upwards not into reverse.’
- Jeff Kaye, Transparency International
‘A tour de force’- Simon Taylor, Co-founder of Global Witness
‘An important book on an uncomfortable subject’- Paul Collier, author of Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
'Anyone who has a working or other interest in banking and big business in general, organised crime, and sport, besides fraud prevention in particular, can profit from reading one or more chapters. These topics and more are covered in reports on the Transparency International website; but the authors have done a service by bringing together their argument inside book covers...the layout and writing style of the book feel fresh and altogether free of the stodginess that could so easily have attended such a worthy subject. And the quite low price, compared with some books, is welcome too, to encourage non-specialists into buying.'- Mark Rowe, Professional Security Magazine
‘an important work that provides a bedrock of understanding…highly readable…Unmasked comes as at important time, just as the world is turning in on itself. The West should learn the lessons that are described so well in the book and use this difficult period to ensure that the first gear in which it has for so long been engaged is kicked into second and upwards not into reverse.’
- Jeff Kaye, Transparency International
Marketing Plan
Laurence Cockcroft will be interviewed BBC Radio 4's Start the Week on 9th January, shedding light on corruption outside of the developing world.
Laurence Cockcroft will be interviewed BBC Radio 4's Start the Week on 9th January, shedding light on corruption outside of the developing world.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781784536084 |
PRICE | US$19.50 (USD) |