Alexandra Gillies

Crude Intentions

How Oil Corruption Contaminates the World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and disadvantaging everyday people. Where does one begin to fight corruption of this magnitude? To find answers, Crude Intentions examines the corruption crisis that erupted during the recent oil boom. Telling stories drawn from around the world, the book reveals how company bosses signed off on risky schemes, kleptocrats used oil wealth to cement their hold on power, and armies of bankers, accountants, and lawyers stashed the stolen loot offshore. But, the stories also reveal vulnerabilities in this web of fraud, and show how heroic prosecutors, journalists and activists succeeded in battling back. These are the starting points for building a smarter fight against corruption, in the oil sector and well beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 168mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9780190940706
• ISBN-10: 0190940700
• Artikelnr.: 55457026

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Gillies is an advisor at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a not-for-profit group. She has worked to promote transparency and combat corruption in the oil sector for more than ten years. Gillies holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Cambridge, where she researched the politics of Nigeria's oil sector. She lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Crisis of Corruption
Chapter 2: "Being a Friend in a Nest of Vipers"
Chapter 3: Corruption and the Competition for Power
Chapter 4: The Kleptocracy Kings
Chapter 5: "An Octopus that Reaches around the Globe"
Chapter 6: Corruption's Motley Foes
Chapter 7: We Know How to Fight Corruption
Notes
References
Index