New paper! Q: Does State Capture Facilitate Strategic Corruption? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A: Not necessarily. Even where states are deeply captured, supra-national and domestic institutions with oversight functions can create regulatory barriers

A blog I’ve written about the contested concept of Strategic Corruption - more to come (follow @soc-ace.bsky.social if you’d like to hear more!) I’d like to thank @isrfoundation.bsky.social for their support for this project - wonderful foundation, pursuing a truly innovative approach to research.

*New & open access* We draw on our book Indulging Kleptocracy, reflecting on the importance of networks - even more than states, we argue - in today’s global order. @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @jheathershaw.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/13/...

@tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom and I wrote this paper based on @oxunipress.bsky.social Indulging Kleptocracy for @britishacademy.bsky.social journal. Our global future will be increasingly kleptocratic unless govts enforce their own laws. journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/13/...

Great to see this paper out. Whatever sensitive topic one might tackle - whether it is war crimes, corruption or others - the phenomenon of secrecy in closed institutions is one that raises imp questions, esp. in (semi)authoritarian contexts. Congrats @lanabi.bsky.social @denisakost.bsky.social

💥Free online conference by the the Italian Institute for the Future. I could only participate yesterday, but fascinating talks upcoming e.g. @miasmafactory.bsky.social, @tenaprelec.bsky.social, @jlmarti.bsky.social www.instituteforthefuture.it/frontiers-of... #philsky #futurestudies #polisky

📢 On 20 May, Dr. @tenaprelec.bsky.social & Dr. @sonjasg.bsky.social presented at the 🇪🇺 Parliament Library, sharing insights from Indulging Kleptocracy and research from #GEOPOWEREU on corrosive capital. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/45O7iiP

Ditto. I’d like to make sure my research is “in sync” with Trump administration so I’m still able to visit the US, but I’m not sure whether he wants to use our book as a how-to guide for indulging kleptocrats. @tenaprelec.bsky.social

🔊Listen to the ep.15 of 🎙️Seriously Balkans - The #BiEPAGtalks 🔹What the new German Government means for the Balkans Host: @fbieber.bsky.social Guests: Frauke Seebass, Fellow at @swp-berlin.org & Researcher @dgap.org Adnan Ćeramagić, Senior Analyst, ESI 🎧 tinyurl.com/5n9y55u8

Full house - and a great discussion - at yesterday’s launch event of ThinkEurope in Ljubljana. I represented @cas-see-uniri.bsky.social bringing in some @geopower-eu.bsky.social research into the mix. Good luck to our friends Sabina Lange and Zoran Nechev with this new venture

Next week in the European Parliament! We’re bringing the fight against enabling to the heart of 🇪🇺 @agillies.bsky.social on enabler networks @sonjasg.bsky.social on corrosive capital and your faithful trio on Indulging Kleptocracy Register: ep-events.secure.europarl.europa.eu/greensefa/ev...

📽️ Watch Helen, our Senior Legal Researcher, talking about the findings of our “Gatekeepers, enablers or technicians?” report, which unpacks the different labels used to describe the role of UK lawyers in combatting #kleptocracy, #statecapture and grand #corruption. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVix...

Last week, the Indulging Kleptocracy tour went to Geneva to brief a special session of the UN on illicit finance and Paris to speak to the OCED on the book. Thanks to hosts and fellow speakers. unctad.org/meeting/spec... @tenaprelec.bsky.social @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

📚 BOOK LAUNCH & PANEL | 20 May, 12:30h, European Parliament Library ‘Indulging Kleptocracy’ and The Battle Against Transnational Enabling 📍 REGISTRATION: ep-events.secure.europarl.europa.eu/.../eve.../e...

Looking to apply for a postdoc on corruption, authoritarianism, EU (non) enlargement and other fun topics… and you want to do it while sipping your favourite beverage by the seaside? Come work with me in Rijeka 🇭🇷 uniri.hr/en/vijesti/m...

Thank you so much for reading our book! Love your writing @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

As the US retreats from #anticorruption, the UK and EU need to act together, aligning approaches on enablers, legal accountability & systemic reforms. This op-ed by @jheathershaw.bsky.social, Tom Mayne and I is a first step in joining those dots. More to come. national.thelead.uk/p/time-to-st...

Liz challenged the over-reliance on AML frameworks like FATF standards which often fail when kleptocrats rewrite laws,block investigations, or legalise corruption. Her message: "We often talk about ‘moving beyond compliance’, but I think we can do better and aim for avoiding complicity."

Increasing evidence that the Serbian government used a sound weapon against protesters (during 15 minutes of silence!) to create a mass panic. EU should demand an investigation. The use of repressive tools against peaceful protesters is a serious escalation & deliberate attempt to harm citizens.

Why do lawyers decide to take on high-risk clients? What shapes their choices? Our research, hosted by @appgonacrt.bsky.social in Parliament this week, tackles these questions - read the @spotlightcorruption.org report here: www.spotlightcorruption.org/report/gatek...

This is the atmosphere in #Serbia ahead of the protest scheduled for 16:00. In #Belgrade, citizens greeted students marching from across the country toward the capital for what is expected to be the largest demonstration in history.

🎙️ New #Kickback episode! @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social & Kevin Davis discuss Trump’s suspension of the FCPA & its impact on U.S. firms, global corruption, & regulation. What’s next for anti-bribery efforts? 🔗 SoundCloud: bit.ly/Soundcloudep128 🔗 Spotify: bit.ly/SpotifyEp128 #FCPA #AntiCorruption

#NewBlog As #Serbian students and citizens prepare for the biggest protest yet, fears of violence grow. Journalists are being denied entry, and our colleagues in academia, media, and civil society face vicious smear campaigns. The regime is cornered, yet still backed internationally.

Great to see that #IndulgingKleptocracy has been receiving some attention in Ireland. The role of EU countries in the kleptocracy problem - Ireland included - needs much more scrutiny. Let's keep the discussion going @irishtimes.com @irishexaminer.bsky.social

Let's not forget the Irish dimension of #IndulgingKleptocracy!!! We (@tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne) authored this piece based on our book. www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

I'm so gutted I can't be there, but you, Oxford people, should:

This was quite a tour! #IndulgingKleptocracy book launches & @isanet.bsky.social Convention in Chicago w/ many excellent panels incl @geopower-eu.bsky.social sister projects and GI ACE research on lawyers as enablers/gatekeepers. Some initial reflections here >>> www.linkedin.com/posts/tenapr...

Thank you Marianne Kamp & Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar school for hosting the final of six talks on @tenaprelec.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social Indulging Kleptocracy. Thanks @szakonyi.bsky.social @nargiskassenova.bsky.social @zoereiter.bsky.social Alex Cooley & Jeffrey Winners too.

The US really is indulging Kleptocracy. We never meant for our @oxunipress.bsky.social @tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne book (with a foreword by @oliverbullough.bsky.social) to be taken as a programme for government. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Indulging an American breakfast in NYC. We’ll be speaking about other indulgences at Harriman Institute @columbiauniversity.bsky.social later today - join us! harriman.columbia.edu/event/indulg... @jheathershaw.bsky.social Tom Mayne @oupacademic.bsky.social

Thank you to my @biepag.bsky.social colleagues, who’ve done a lot throughout the years to keep the attention high on the rule of law in the Balkans — domestic issues and foreign linkages alike. If you don’t follow their work yet, now is a great moment to start: BiEPAG.eu

Looking forward to this, the first of six talks on @oxunipress.bsky.social @tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne Indulging Kleptocracy in the United States in the next two weeks.

I had so much fun talking to Giles Brown about transnational kleptocracy - Marbella 'sunny place for shady people' angle included... thank you for having me! A big plug to David Hooper's book, too: an excellent review of libel law, SLAPPs and related issues.

‘Expatriate: Following a migration category’ is now out in paperback 🎉 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182579/

Professional enablers do not simply move money and don’t merely supply their services. They create the structures that sustain kleptocracy, embedding it into the political and economic fabric. New for @theconversation.com, w/ @jheathershaw.bsky.social & Tom Mayne theconversation.com/how-banks-la...

🏛️ DC area followers - don't miss this book talk at GWU, 2.27.25 📖 Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites, and the Enabling of Corruption @jheathershaw.bsky.social, @tenaprelec.bsky.social & Tom Mayne. Mod. @szakonyi.bsky.social calendar.gwu.edu/event/indulg...

Excited* doesn’t cut it! Indulging Kleptocracy goes on a US tour soon, in the most interesting time** in my lifetime for corruption studies * here included: a dread to leave the LO at home with the Nth nursery flu of the year **see: a certain apocryphal Chinese curse

‘The real horror show is the new administration’s approach to corruption, which will open the doors of America to all manner of bad actors.’ Spot-on piece by @cjcmichel.bsky.social on the tectonic set-backs to anticorruption inflicted by Trump in a matter of days. The repercussions will be global.

Our take on possible (and impossible) scenarios for the future of protests in Serbia. Key take: the stability which motivates EU passivity is completely elusive. euobserver.com/eu-political.... w/ @fbieber.bsky.social @lurapo.bsky.social and Claudia Lastro.

Our Executive Director @suehawley.bsky.social was at @ukparliament.parliament.uk on Monday at the launch of @jheathershaw.bsky.social, @tenaprelec.bsky.social and Tom Mayne’s super new book, ‘Indulging Kleptocracy’, which pinpoints the role of UK enablers who help kleptocrats hide their dirty money.

What a night at Frontline Club. So many people who have inspired, supported and informed our work on Indulging Kleptocracy in many ways. The biggest thank you goes to the wonderful @oliverbullough.bsky.social, who wrote a cracking preface…

💸 👀 Full house for the APPG @appgonacrt.bsky.social event in Parliament this evening. Chaired by @joepowell.bsky.social MP With… Susan Hawley of @endcorruption.bsky.social @jheathershaw.bsky.social Tom Mayne @tenaprelec.bsky.social @philbrickellmp.bsky.social MP #Democracy

Full house at the Commons for the launch of Indulging Kleptocracy! @tenaprelec.bsky.social @jheathershaw.bsky.social @joepowell.bsky.social

📢 Upcoming ACE Seminar: Strategic Corruption Join Dr @tenaprelec.bsky.social, Dr Bertram Lang & Dr Claudia Baez Camargo for a discussion on how transnational corruption advances political & economic goals. 📅 20 Feb 2025 | ⏰ 13:00 GMT 🔗 Register: bit.ly/40O7j2r #AntiCorruption

@jheathershaw.bsky.social @tenaprelec.bsky.social & Tom Mayne recently launched their latest book, Indulging Kleptocracy, published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. The book looks at how financial & legal systems in democratic states facilitate kleptocrats in protecting & legitimizing their wealth.

It’s finally out! Next week we’re launching Indulging Kleptocracy in London: - Monday 10 Feb, UK Parliament - Tue 11 Feb, Frontline Club, chaired by @oliverbullough.bsky.social (who also wrote a cracking preface!) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop... Stay tuned for more events to come

Extraordinary outcome to this case - if this was not a SLAPP suit, can such a thing ever exist? @skcoughtrie.bsky.social @spotlightcorruption.org @transparencyuk.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/571b...

No wonder the Chinese MFA supports Vučić amid student protests! One should not forget that the reconstruction of the railway station in Novi Sad, where a roof collapse killed 15 people on November 1, was part of the Belt and Road project – the Belgrade-Subotica Railway. report.az/en/amp/other...

Who can make it to the club in next 5 years: one or none? In a new blog for @biepag.bsky.social, I address possible enlargement scenarios. As a citizen of Montenegro I will conclude by estimating that there is a 50-50 chance of the first or last scenario happening. www.biepag.eu/blog/ecs-age...

It's one week until Indulging Kleptocracy (@oxunipress.bsky.social @tenaprelec.bsky.social Tom Mayne) is released worldwide. We're launching the book in parliament on Feb 10th and at Frontline Club on Feb 11th. More launch events in UK, US, EU planned. Join Us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kleptoscop...