Fighting Grand Corruption
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 03 April 2025
- 10 April 2025
- ISBN:
- 9781009550574
- 9781009550581
- 9781009550611
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.576kg, 284 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.42kg, 284 Pages
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Book description
Grand corruption-systemic, large-scale, and top-down misappropriation of public resources for private gain-remains a pervasive problem around the world. It affects the ability of governments to educate, feed, and care for their people. It undermines human rights, perpetuates impunity, and erodes trust in government and the judiciary. It strengthens disgruntlement, authoritarianism, and insurgency. Corruption, however, is not a static force. In this work, Naomi Roht-Arriaza explores how corruption has changed, and how new anti-corruption thinking, especially in Latin America, centers human rights, victims' access to justice, and reparations. Roht-Arriaza shows how activists have used outside pressure and support for local actors where state institutions have been captured and foregrounds anti-corruption considerations in dealing with transitional justice and atrocity crimes. Written with engaging stories and examples, this book will appeal to lawyers, scholars of Latin America, and anyone else interested in fighting kleptocrats with the goal of reclaiming the common good.
Reviews
‘[A] crucial text on the ever-expanding interconnections among corruption, human rights violations, inequalities, environmental destruction, and democratic backsliding, and ways to combat these pervasive, inextricably linked problems. … Essential.’
K. Sorensen Source: Choice
‘‘Fighting Grand Corruption’ is a timely and ambitious intervention. It is also, in important respects, a personal one: the author, long associated with the transitional justice literature, here turns the analytical apparatus of human rights advocacy upon a problem whose dimensions she had come to consider as the principal obstacle to the very objectives that movement had set itself. … The most useful scholarly works are those that open enquiry rather than foreclose it. This book opens an enquiry of considerable importance, and equips its readers - lawyers, advocates, and policymakers alike - with the conceptual tools they will need to carry it forward.’
Leonardo Borlini Source: Heidelberg Journal of International Law
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