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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

Lawfare — To many in Washington, the rise of China and the revanchism of Russia herald the return of great power competition. To many more, including the United States's allies and partners, whose proximity to Russia and China necessitate a hyperfocus on great power competition, President Biden's that "America is back" is a welcome opportunity to fend off the erosion of international norms that have ensured decades of regional stability.
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The Strategic Cost of Transnational Corruption

The Strategic Cost of Transnational Corruption

thestrategybridge.org — The authors of the next National Security Strategy must ask how U.S. national security agencies fit in the anticorruption landscape. To inform the development of a comprehensive strategy to address corruption, they should consider how the use of foreign policy tools by national security and foreign
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The World Needs Democratic AI Principles

The World Needs Democratic AI Principles

The Diplomat Magazine — Advertisement Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses a nearly limitless set of possibilities and the rapid integration of AI into every facet of human life offers great promise. It is also a disruptive force that threatens to destabilize the global balance of power and the foundational principles of democracy itself.
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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

The Diplomat Magazine — Advertisement Last week, a Swedish court of appeals upheld the acquittals of three former senior officials at Telia, formerly known as TeliaSonera, who were accused of bribing Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's late President Islam Karimov, for lucrative telecom contracts in the Central Asia country.
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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

ahvalnews.com — On Friday, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden officially announced a handful of upcoming appointments to key national security positions. The names continue the transition's theme of selecting experienced former government officials who worked with Biden under former President Barak Obama.
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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?

The New Republic — Back in 2010, a little-known section of the major Dodd-Frank financial reform act looked poised to upend the way fossil fuel and mining companies did business abroad.
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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

ahvalnews.com — 'The set of sanctions targeting the Turkish agency responsible for the procurement, Turkey's Defence Industries Directorate (SSB), its head, İsmail Demir, and three other senior officials are narrow because Turkey is not the primary target of CAATSA.'
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US Passes Historic Anti-Corruption Legislation With Global Reach

US Passes Historic Anti-Corruption Legislation With Global Reach

The Diplomat Magazine — Advertisement In the waning days of the Trump presidency, veto-proof majorities in the U.S. Congress passed historic bipartisan anti-corruption legislation in concert with his successor's priorities.
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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

Lawfare — Trump might finally impose CAATSA sanctions on Turkey. But without a broader strategy to address fractured U.S.-Turkey relations, sanctions will prove counterproductive to American interests.
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The Overlooked Intersection of Social Media and Kleptocracy

The Overlooked Intersection of Social Media and Kleptocracy

Just Security — Teodorin Obiang, the vice president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea (and also the president's son), seemingly lives to populate his Instagram feed with private jet flights, meetings in opulent suits while perched on gold encrusted furnishings, and parties with carnival dancers. Flaunting his extravagant lifestyle, the corrupt vice president thrives on the social cachet of his popular blue-check account.
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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?

ahvalnews.com — Eager to revive multilateralism and tackle international issues, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has committed to organising and hosting a "Summit for Democracy" during his first year in office.
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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

ahvalnews.com — Kyrgyzstan's political upheaval and the brazen assassination of Saimaiti in Istanbul are just the most visible collateral damage of kleptocracy. So long as money launderers like Saimaiti have easy access to banking and real estate in the United States and Europe, kleptocrats like Matraimov will continue to distort and degrade governance as they partner with transnational criminals like Abdukadyr.
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A cold winter for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?

A cold winter for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?

ahvalnews.com — On Monday, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a Russian-brokered agreement that is expected to end the six weeks of open hostilities between the two countries over Nagorno-Karabakh. The mountainous region, known as Artsakh to Armenian, has been at the heart of their enduring rivalry for decades.
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Where do the U.S. and Turkey go from here?

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

ahvalnews.com — Rebuilding a U.S.-Turkey relationship that reflects the two countries' formal status as treaty allies will require a reconstitution of extensive ties between officials at all levels of the two governments' ministries. Turkish authorities will need to take confidence-building steps to indicate to American officials that Turkey can be a constructive partner again.
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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?

ahvalnews.com — Tatar campaigned on a two-state solution to the peace process, a position that Ankara prefers. Akıncı and Tufan Erhürman, the more centrist Republican Turkish Party (CTP) candidate who came in third in the first-round election before endorsing Akıncı in the second-round, both advocate for a federalist solution that would reunify the island.
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The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is not a 'proxy war' | | Ahval

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

ahvalnews.com — The U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, criticised the Trump administration on Tuesday for failing to make diplomatic efforts to quell fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous territory of the South Caucasus that is disputed by Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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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

ahvalnews.com — Politics in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) is heating up in the final days before the Oct. 11 presidential election, with the governing coalition collapsing on Wednesday in response to overt intervention by Ankara in support of its favoured candidate.
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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

Just Security — The $2 trillion of suspicious transactions detailed in the leaked bank records of the new FinCEN Files news investigation demonstrate that, despite repeated fines imposed by U.S. authorities, some of the world's biggest banks, including Barclays and JPMorgan Chase, have undermined efforts to build an effective international anti-money laundering regime.
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Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of opposition continue

Enforced disappearances and arbitrary detentions of opposition continue

ahvalnews.com — Human rights violations are a persistent feature of Ankara's treatment of political opposition since the failed coup attempt in July of 2016. The government labelled the Gülenist movement it blames for the putsch a terrorist organisation, and has gone to great lengths to crackdown on its members both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions.
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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

ahvalnews.com — President Donald Trump's business ties in Turkey have drawn ongoing speculation, particularly given the context of his repeated willingness to accede to his Turkish counterpart's policy priorities to the bipartisan consternation of the U.S. Congress and the American intelligence and diplomatic communities.
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The Façade of Chinese Foreign Policy Coherence

The Façade of Chinese Foreign Policy Coherence

thestrategybridge.org — The common perception that China's centralized state leadership is empowered to pursue Chinese dominance over international affairs is tempting, but illusory. Its actions abroad are better understood as a manifestation of the Chinese leadership's responses to various, and occasionally conflicting, d
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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

ahvalnews.com — When the Uighur businessman Aierken Saimaiti was murdered in Istanbul on Nov. 10 he was five days from obtaining Turkish citizenship, which he sought to protect himself from extradition. The self-confessed money launderer was involved in a scheme that involved several Turkish firms.
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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

ahvalnews.com — Congressional leaders have blocked major U.S. arms sales to Turkey for almost two years in response to Ankara's purchase of Russian S-400 missile systems, which the United States says threatens the F-35 fighter jet's stealth capabilities.
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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

The Diplomat Magazine — Advertisement The daughters of Uzbekistan's late dictator, Islam Karimov, are back in the news, but for very different reasons. Last week, Lola Karimova-Tillyaeva and her husband listed three luxury properties in Los Angeles , California, valued at a combined $18.9 million - homes that they have reportedly never lived in.
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