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Covers:  Corruption, kleptocracy, authoritarianism, human rights, great power competition, and international security
Anticorruption @Integrity_IACC | former girls' edu in 🇦🇫 | Masters in Middle East, Caucasus & Central Asia Security Studies @univofstandrews | RTs≠endorsement
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Preserving Liberal Democratic Institutions Through Engagement

Preserving Liberal Democratic Institutions Through Engagement

To many in Washington, the rise of China and the revanchism of Russia herald the return of great power compet…

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The Strategic Cost of Transnational Corruption

The Strategic Cost of Transnational Corruption

The authors of the next National Security Strategy must ask how U.S. national security agencies fit in the an…

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The World Needs Democratic AI Principles

The World Needs Democratic AI Principles

Advertisement Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses a nearly limitless set of possibilities and the rapid …

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Off the Hook: Acquittals of Swedish Telecom Officials Linked to Uzbek Bribery Scandal Upheld

Off the Hook: Acquittals of Swedish Telecom Officials Linked to Uzbek Bribery Scandal Upheld

Advertisement Last week, a Swedish court of appeals upheld the acquittals of three former senior officials at…

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Biden's new national security roster knows how to deal with Turkey | | Ahval

Biden's new national security roster knows how to deal with Turkey | | Ahval

On Friday, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden officially announced a handful of upcoming appointments to key nati…

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Why Can't the SEC Just Agree That Bribing Foreign Governments Is Bad?

Why Can't the SEC Just Agree That Bribing Foreign Governments Is Bad?

Back in 2010, a little-known section of the major Dodd-Frank financial reform act looked poised to upend the …

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Narrow U.S. sanctions on Turkey are primarily designed to target Russia

Narrow U.S. sanctions on Turkey are primarily designed to target Russia

'The set of sanctions targeting the Turkish agency responsible for the procurement, Turkey's Defence Industri…

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US Passes Historic Anti-Corruption Legislation With Global Reach

US Passes Historic Anti-Corruption Legislation With Global Reach

Advertisement In the waning days of the Trump presidency, veto-proof majorities in the U.S. Congress passed h…

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The S-400 Knot in U.S.-Turkey Relations: Assessing the Viability of U.S. Sanctions

The S-400 Knot in U.S.-Turkey Relations: Assessing the Viability of U.S. Sanctions

Trump might finally impose CAATSA sanctions on Turkey. But without a broader strategy to address fractured U.…

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The Overlooked Intersection of Social Media and Kleptocracy

The Overlooked Intersection of Social Media and Kleptocracy

Teodorin Obiang, the vice president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea (and also the president's son), seemingly l…

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Should the U.S. invite Turkey to its Summit for Democracy?

Should the U.S. invite Turkey to its Summit for Democracy?

Eager to revive multilateralism and tackle international issues, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has committed…

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From a murder in Istanbul to a revolution in Kyrgyzstan, kleptocracy wreaks havoc

From a murder in Istanbul to a revolution in Kyrgyzstan, kleptocracy wreaks havoc

Kyrgyzstan's political upheaval and the brazen assassination of Saimaiti in Istanbul are just the most visibl…

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A cold winter for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?

A cold winter for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?

On Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a Russian-br…

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Where do the U.S. and Turkey go from here?

Where do the U.S. and Turkey go from here?

Rebuilding a U.S.-Turkey relationship that reflects the two countries' formal status as treaty allies will re…

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Ankara has its man in Tatar, will it get a two-state Cyprus?

Ankara has its man in Tatar, will it get a two-state Cyprus?

Tatar campaigned on a two-state solution to the peace process, a position that Ankara prefers. Akıncı and Tuf…

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The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not a 'proxy war' | | Ahval

The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not a 'proxy war' | | Ahval

The U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, criticised the Trump administratio…

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Ankara intervenes in Northern Cyprus election that could shape peace process

Ankara intervenes in Northern Cyprus election that could shape peace process

Politics in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is heating up in the final days before the Oct. 11…

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Manafort and His Ukraine Patron: "FinCEN Files" Further Illustrate Gaping Holes in Oversight

Manafort and His Ukraine Patron: "FinCEN Files" Further Illustrate Gaping Holes in Oversight

The $2 trillion of suspicious transactions detailed in the leaked bank records of the new FinCEN Files news i…

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Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of opposition continue

Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of opposition continue

Human rights violations are a persistent feature of Ankara's treatment of political opposition since the fail…

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Trump's tax returns detail his business dealings in Turkey | | Ahval

Trump's tax returns detail his business dealings in Turkey | | Ahval

President Donald Trump's business ties in Turkey have drawn ongoing speculation, particularly given the conte…

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The Façade of Chinese Foreign Policy Coherence

The Façade of Chinese Foreign Policy Coherence

The common perception that China's centralized state leadership is empowered to pursue Chinese dominance over…

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Turkish firms play intermediary role in Central Asian money laundering operation

Turkish firms play intermediary role in Central Asian money laundering operation

When the Uighur businessman Aierken Saimaiti was murdered in Istanbul on Nov. 10 he was five days from obtain…

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Turkey hires U.S. lobbyists to break Congress's de facto arms embargo | | Ahval

Turkey hires U.S. lobbyists to break Congress's de facto arms embargo | | Ahval

Congressional leaders have blocked major U.S. arms sales to Turkey for almost two years in response to Ankara…

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Corruption and the Fruits of Kleptocracy: The Saga of the Karimova Sisters Continues

Corruption and the Fruits of Kleptocracy: The Saga of the Karimova Sisters Continues

Advertisement The daughters of Uzbekistan's late dictator, Islam Karimov, are back in the news, but for very …

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