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OverviewA generation ago not a single country had laws to counter money laundering; now, more countries have standardized anti-money laundering (AML) policies than have armed forces. In The Money Laundry, J. C. Sharman investigates whether AML policy works, and why it has spread so rapidly to so many states with so little in common. Sharman asserts that there are few benefits to such policies but high costs, which fall especially heavily on poor countries. Sharman tests the effectiveness of AML laws by soliciting offers for just the kind of untraceable shell companies that are expressly forbidden by global standards. In practice these are readily available, and the author had no difficulty in buying the services of such companies. After dealing with providers in countries ranging from the Seychelles and Somalia to the United States and Britain, Sharman demonstrates that it is easier to form untraceable companies in large rich states than in small poor ones; the United States is the worst offender. Despite its ineffectiveness, AML policy has spread via three paths. The Financial Action Task Force, the key standard-setter and enforcer in this area, has successfully implemented a strategy of blacklisting to promote compliance. Publicly identified as noncompliant, targeted states suffered damage to their reputation. Subsequently, officials from poor countries became socialized within transnational policy networks. Finally, international banks began using the presence of AML policy as a proxy for general country risk. Developing states have responded by adopting this policy as a functionally useless but symbolically valuable way of reassuring powerful outsiders. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the G20 has used the successful methods of coercive policy diffusion pioneered in the AML realm as a model for other global governance initiatives. Full Product DetailsAuthor: J. C. Sharman , E C PielouPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Edition: 2nd Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780801450181ISBN 10: 0801450187 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 01 November 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews<p> Well documented, well structured and with plenty of interesting examples, The Money Laundry takes readers through the complexity of the post-9/11 global AML policy drive. . . . Sharman not only provides a much needed constructive critique of anti-money laundering (AML) policy but shows how we can build on its few successful aspects. -Loretta Napoleoni, International Affairs (July 2012) <p> The Money Laundry is an important work of extraordinary compass that turns an ultra-skeptical, informed lens upon the global anti-laundering movement. It poses some fundamental questions for the rationality of current approaches to serious crime control, both in the developed and, especially, the developing world. -Michael Levi, Cardiff University, author of The Phantom Capitalists Author InformationJ. 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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