Kleptocratic Adaptation: Anticipating the Next Stage in the Battle Against Transnational Kleptocracy

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Kleptocratic Adaptation: Anticipating the Next Stage in the Battle Against Transnational Kleptocracy

Confronting kleptocratic networks will be a defining challenge for democratic societies and their policymakers. Unfortunately, too many democracies fail to prioritize global corruption as a major national security threat or to see how their own laws, institutions, and social norms enable it.

By Matthew T. Page and Jodi Vittori

Published on Jan 17, 2023

International Forum for Democratic Studies (NED)

About the Authors

Matthew T. Page

Former Nonresident Scholar, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program

Matthew T. Page was a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Jodi Vittori

Former Nonresident Scholar, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program

Jodi Vittori was a nonresident scholar in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program. She is an expert on the linkages of corruption, state fragility, illicit finance, and U.S. national security.

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