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The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management is a very fine piece of work. In this exceptionally accessible book, J. C. Sharman provides a clear-sighted critique of grand corruption control efforts, offers very thoughtful interpretation of a range of legal cases and national practices, and juxtaposes rhetoric and claims in official settings with evidence of practice. -Michael Levi, Cardiff University, author of The Phantom Capitalists: The Organization and Control of Long-Firm Fraud and member of the European Commission's Group of Experts on Corruption The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management is a novel take on the conditions that shape nations' willingness and capacity to, first, enact laws to deter the influx of illicit finance (specifically kleptocrats' illegal assets) and, second, to take action to prosecute incidences of kleptocracy and return stolen assets to 'victim' countries. The case studies in the book-the United States, the UK, Switzerland, and Australia-are peppered with highly entertaining stories of scandals that have triggered (or not) host country action, with requisite attention to the nonresponse of home countries. This highly teachable book should be welcomed by national-level policymakers and practitioners at major international organizations. -Catherine Weaver, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, author of Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform

The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management is a very fine piece of work. In this exceptionally accessible book, J. C. Sharman provides a clear-sighted critique of grand corruption control efforts, offers very thoughtful interpretation of a range of legal cases and national practices, and juxtaposes rhetoric and claims in official settings with evidence of practice. -Michael Levi, Cardiff University, author of The Phantom Capitalists: The Organization and Control of Long-Firm Fraud and member of the European Commission's Group of Experts on Corruption The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management is a novel take on the conditions that shape nations' willingness and capacity, first, to enact laws to deter the influx of illicit finance (specifically kleptocrats' illegal assets) and, second, to take action to prosecute incidences of kleptocracy and return stolen assets to 'victim' countries. The case studies in the book-the United States, the UK, Switzerland, and Australia-are peppered with highly entertaining stories of scandals that have triggered (or not) host country action, with requisite attention to the nonresponse of home countries. This highly teachable book should be welcomed by national-level policymakers and practitioners at major international organizations. -Catherine Weaver, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, author of Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform

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J. C. Sharman is Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management: On the International Campaign against Grand Corruption, The Money Laundry: Regulating Criminal Finance in the Global Economy, and Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation, all from Cornell, and coauthor most recently of International Order in Diversity: War, Trade and Rule in the Indian Ocean.

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