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The Social Construction of Global Corruption

From Utopia to Neoliberalism

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  • © 2019

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Authors:
  1. Elitza Katzarova

    1. Braunschweig University of Technology , Braunschweig, Germany

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  • Constitutes the first International Relations monograph to systematically analyse the rise of corruption as a global governance problem
  • Introduces new theoretical and methodological tools to constructivist IR
  • Provides an alternative explanation for the international institutionalization of anti-corruption reforms

Part of the book series: Political Corruption and Governance (PCG)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: The Origin Story of Global Anti-Corruption Governance

    • Elitza Katzarova
    Pages 1-8

  3. Corruption and Its Discontents

    • Elitza Katzarova
    Pages 9-41

  4. The Social Construction of Global Problems

    • Elitza Katzarova
    Pages 43-73

  5. Building a New World: Global Claims in the 1970s

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    Pages 75-103

  6. The Corporate Watergate

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    Pages 105-132

  7. The Road to the New Orthodoxy

    • Elitza Katzarova
    Pages 133-170

  8. The OECD Convention and Beyond: State-Powered Coalition Building in a Broken World

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    Pages 171-211

  9. Global Anti-Corruption Talks in the 1970s and 1990s: The Story of Two Utopias

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    Pages 213-234

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 235-238
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About this book

This book offers new ways of thinking about corruption by examining the two distinct ways in which policy approaches and discourse on corruption developed in the UN and the OECD. One of these approaches extrapolated transnational bribery as the main form of corrupt practices and advocated a limited scope offense, while the other approach tackled the broader structure of the global economic system and advocated curbing the increasing power of multinational corporations. Developing nations, in particular Chile, initiated and contributed much to these early debates, but the US-sponsored issue of transnational bribery came to dominate the international agenda. In the process, the ‘corrupt corporation’ was supplanted by the ‘corrupt politician’, the ‘corrupt public official’ and their international counterpart: the ‘corrupt country’. This book sheds light on these processes and the way in which they reconfigured our understanding of the state as an economic actor and the multinationalcorporation as a political actor.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Braunschweig University of Technology , Braunschweig, Germany

    Elitza Katzarova

About the author

Elitza Katzarova is Visiting Researcher at the Chair of International Relations at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany. Her current research interests are in the field of corruption and global corporate governance. 

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