2018 Columbia University Press International Studies Catalog

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New and Forthcoming

Analysing Corruption

The Economics of Arms

An Introduction Dan Hough

The corruption scandals that have engulfed many

Western states and the efforts of the international political community to find ways to counteract them have compelled scholars to confront corruption as a subject for serious academic research. Corruption analysis has become a rigorous discipline with a broad consensus on what corruption is and a range of indicative case study analyses. Dan Hough provides an authoritative and engaging introduction to a subject that remains the largest public policy challenge that the state faces in many parts of the world.

Keith Hartley

It is estimated that today some 2.7 percent of world GDP ($1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the U.S. defense contractor, had revenues of $45 billion—the equivalent of the GDP of Tunisia. This book explores the business behind these breathtaking figures and explains how the arms industry makes its money. $23.00 paper 978-1-911116-24-0 $75.00 cloth 978-1-911116-23-3 2017 176 pages

Agenda Publishing

$30.00 paper 978-1-911116-55-4 2017 256 pages

Agenda Publishing

The Money Laundering Market

A United Nations Renaissance

Edited by Killian McCarthy

John Trent and Laura Schnurr

What the UN Is and What It Could Be

Regulating the Criminal Economy

An estimated $3.5 trillion passes through the market for money laundering annually. This represents 80 percent of the world’s illegal income. By “cleaning” the ill-gotten gains of the criminal economy, money launderers keep crime profitable and illegal activities, including those of terrorist organizations, funded. This volume takes an integrated look at money laundering by considering the laws, the launderers, and the new economics of money laundering in the digital age.

This primer helps readers understand the United Nations’ historical, technological, political, and economic context in order to analyze its strengths and weaknesses in light of current proposals to create more workable global institutions. $26.00 paper

978-3-8474-0711-9

2018 140 pages

barbara budrich publishers

$90.00 / £74.95 cloth 978-1-911116-43-1 July 2018 288 pages

Agenda Publishing

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