September 8: Orientation

September 10

Readings:

• "Tackling International Corruption: No Longer Taboo," John Brademas and Fritz Heimann, Foreign Affairs, September/October 1998
• Corruption and the Global Economy, ed. Kimberly Ann Elliott, pp. 7-31
• Political Corruption, eds. Arnold J. Heidenheimer et al., chapters 1, 2, 5
• Inquiry Reader
• "The Erosion of the State," Susan Strange, Current History, November 1997
• "The Corruption Eruption," Moises Naim, The Brown Journal of World Affairs, Summer 1995
• "Controlling the Global Corruption Epidemic," Robert S. Leiken, Foreign Policy, Winter 1996-97
• "Global Corruption, Crime and the Drug Trade," James A. Glynn, Charles F. Hohm, and Elbert W. Stewart, Global Social Problems, HarperCollins, 1996
• "The World of Dirty Money," Nigel Adam, The WorldPaper, January 1992
• "Testimony of Jack A. Blum, Esq. on Money Laundering and Mexico," House Banking and Financial Services Committee, General Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
• "BCCI: The Bank that Abedi Built," Mushahid Hussain, The WorldPaper, June 1991

Bill Moyers Documentary: The Secret Government

Reading:

• "Iran-Contra's Untold Story," Robert Parry and Peter Kornbluh, Foreign Policy, Fall 1988

September 17

Guest Lecturer: Ronald MacLean-Abaroa
Co-Founder, Transparency International; Former Mayor, La Paz, Bolivia; Co-Author, Corrupt Cities (forthcoming)

Readings:

• Corruption and the Global Economy, ed. Kimberly Ann Elliott, pp. 31-61, 119-132, 147-163
• Transparency International Documents and Sourcebook
• "Practical Approaches to Defeating Municipal Malfeasance," Ronald MacLean-Abaroa and Robert Klitgaard, from the forthcoming Corrupt Cities
• Inquiry Reader
• "Combatting Corruption Around the World," Peter Eigen, Journal of Democracy, January 1996
• "International Cooperation Against Corruption," Robert Klitgaard, Finance & Development, March 1998
• "The End of Secrecy," Ann Florini, Foreign Policy, Summer 1998

Guest Lecturers:
Juan Enriquez Cabot
Former Chief Executive Officer, Urban Development Corporation, Mexico City; Former Chief of Staff and Coordinator General of Economic Policy, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Former Negotiator, Peace Commission in Chiapas; Co-Founder and Director, Democracia y Desarrollo, Mexico City; Fellow, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School (author of 16 case studies); Director of a new genomics firm (founded by Dr. J. Craig Venter, president of the Institute for Genomic Research) dedicated to animal, plan and virus issues.

Ronald MacLean-Abaroa
[See September 17]

Readings:
Genome

• Selections from The Gene Genie, Philip Kitcher, manuscript
• "J. Craig Venter-DNA Is His Paydirt," NYTimes Magazine, August 23, 1998
• "Science's Compass: Genomics and the World's Economy," Juan Enriquez, Science Magazine, Vol 281, August 14, 1998
• "Thwarting Terror: A Special Report: Germ Defense Plan in Peril As Its Flaws Are Revealed," William Broad & Judith Miller, NYTimes, August 7, 1998
• "The Economic Impact of Genomics:Countdown to 2000," American Association for the Advancement of Science's Genome Seminar, Feb. 15, 1998, Juan Enriquez (or Harvard Business School Case Study on Genomics)
• "Remaking Eden, Cloning and Beyond in a Brave New World," NYTimes Book Review
• "The Copy Shop: Wrestling With Ethics On Biotechnology's New Frontier," Paul Raeburn, January 11, 1998

Mexico

• Twilight On The Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S. - Mexico Border, Sebastian Rotella, chapters, 4-6 , pp. 130-256
• Challenging The State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa, Merilee Grindle, selected pages
• "The Debate On Banks Gets Nasty In Mexico," NYTimes, Sam Dillon, August 7, 1998
• "Dealing With Mexico," Boston Globe, November 9, 1997
• "Mexico's Cycle of Failure," NYTimes, March 11, 1997
• "Why Mexico's Massacre Was No Surprise," December 27, 1997
• All the Mexican citations in Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization Of Us Criminal Law Enforcement, Ethan Nadelmann
• "Death Of An Agent," John McPhee, The New Yorker, January 29, 1996
• Bordering On Chaos: Guerillas, Stockbrokers. Politicians & Mexico's Road to Prosperity, Andres Oppenheimer, pp. 61-62, chapters 5-11, & Chapters 13-16
• Corruption And Politics In Contemporary Mexico, Stephen Morris, pp. 1-82, 115-142

Video Conference with Robert Klitgaard
Dean of the RAND Graduate School; Author, Controlling Corruption

Readings:

• Controlling Corruption, Robert Klitgaard

September 24

Guest Lecturer: David Dapice
Tufts University, Department of Economics, Senior Fellow, Researcher, Harvard Institute for International Development

Readings:

• Controlling Corruption, Robert Klitgaard

October 1: Hour Exam

October 6

Reading:

• Hot Money and the Politics of Debt, R.T. Naylor

October 8

Frontline Documentary: "Hot Money"

Reading:

• Hot Money and the Politics of Debt, R.T. Naylor

October 13

Phone Hook-Up with Tom Naylor
Author, Hot Money and the Politics of Debt; Professor of Economics, McGill University

Reading:

• Hot Money and the Politics of Debt, R.T. Naylor

October 15

Guest Lecturer: David Dapice
[See September 24]

Reading:

• Hot Money and the Politics of Debt, R.T. Naylor

October 20

Guest Lecturer: Virginie Coulloudon
Senior Fellow, The Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Research Project on The Elite & Patronage in Russia

Readings:

• "Privatization in Russia: Catalyst for the Elite," The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Summer/Fall 1998
• "Elite Groups in Russia," Democratizatsiya, Summer 1998
• "Post-Soviet Organized Crime and the Soviet Successor States," International Annals of Criminology, 1995
• "The Price Tag of Russia's Organized Crime," Transition, February 1997
• "Privatization and Crime: The Post-Soviet Experience," Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, December 1995

October 22

Guest Lecturer: Louise Shelley
Department of Sociology, Director, Center for the Study of Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption, American University; Author, Policing Soviet Society; Editor, Trends In Organized Crime and Democratizia

Readings:

• Russian Organized Crime: Global Organized Crime Project, CSIS Task Force Report, 1997
• "Stealing the Russian State," Democratizatsiya, Fall 1997
• "Eradicating Crime Groups: Proliferation of Cartels around the World Threatens to Overwhelm Government," Foreign Service Journal, September 1997
• "Criminal Kaleidoscope: The Diversification and Adaptation of Criminal Activities in the Soviet Successor States," Louise Shelley, European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, 1996
• Inquiry Reader
• "Internal Security and the Rule of Law in Russia," Amy Knight, Current History, October 1996

Evening Lecture: "Transnational Organized Crime: A Comparative Analysis of Italian, Japanese, and Russian Organized Crime Operations," Eaton 206, 7:30pm

October 27
Practitioners-in-Residence

Practitioner: Sidney Zabludoff
Recognized expert on illicit financial flows; Former Deputy Chief, Counternarcotics Operations, CIA; Special Assistant to the Director, U.S. Treasury Department, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN); Principal Economic Expert, class action suit against Swiss Banks; Author, Movements of Nazi Gold: Uncovering the Trail

Readings:

• "Colombian Narcotics Organizations as Business Enterprises," Sidney Zabludoff, Transnational Organized Crime, Summer 1997
• "Cocaine Trafficking," (Part II), The Andean Cocaine Industry, Patrick Clawson and Rensselaer Lee, 1998

October 28

Evening Lecture: "Nazi Gold and the Swiss Banks: The Loss of European Jewish Assets and the Holocaust," by Sidney Zabludoff

Readings:

• "How To Think about the Swiss," The New York Review of Books, June 11, 1998
• Movements of Nazi Gold: Uncovering the Trail, Sidney Zabludoff, World Jewish Congress, 1998
• The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead: How Swiss Bankers Helped To Finance the Nazi WarMachine, Jean Ziegler, pp. 131-279

October 29

Practitioner: Sidney Zabludoff

Readings:

• "Tracking the Money Flow," Douglas Keh, Foreign Service Journal, September 1997

Evening Lecture: "Drugs, Guns, Insurgency & Illicit Money Flows: Organized Transnational Crime," Pearson 106, 7:30PM

November 3

Frontline Documentaries: "Nazi Gold" and "Chasing the Marcoses Millions"

November 5

NBC Special Report: "BCCI"

Reading:

• False Profits: The Inside Story of BCCI, The World's Most Corrupt Financial Empire, Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, chapters 1, 2, 6, 7, 8

November 10
Practitioner-in-Residence

Practitioner: Jack Blum
Former U.S. Senate Investigator, he exposed the BCCI scandal, Noriega's drug trafficking, and Lockheed Aircraft's overseas bribes, among other corrupt practices

Readings:

• The New War: The Web of Crime that Threatens America's Security, John Kerry

Inquiry/Evening Lecture: "The World Financial System at the Precipice: From Russia to the Cayman Islands," Barnum 008, 7:00pm

November 11

Evening Lecture: "Making the Economy Scream: Unresolved Cold War Legacies of Corrupt Foreign Policy -- The Congo, Chile, Indonesia, Iran, Russia...," by Jack Blum

November 12

Practitioner: Jack Blum

Readings:

• "Mafia, Myths, and Markets: On the Theory and Practice of Enterprise Crime," R.T. Naylor
• "Transnational Crime: The Interface between Legal and Illegal Actors," Nikos Passas
• "The Capitalist Threat," George Soros, The Atlantic Monthly, February 1997
• "How To Stop the Global Crash," John Cassidy, The New Yorker

November 17: In-Class Mid-Term Exam

November 19

Guest Lecturer: Merilee Grindle
Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Author, Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa

Readings:

• Challenging the State: A Decade of Crisis and States of Change, Merilee Grindle (excerpt)

November 24

Frontline Documentary: "So You Want To Buy A President?"

December 1

Frontline Documentary: "The Most Wanted Man in the World: Radovan Karadicz"

Readings:

• War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice, Aryeh Neier
• World Paper articles
• "Seeking out Official Sins," Benjamin Pogrund
• "Keeping the Books Closed," Silviu Brucan
• "Democracies Unearth Political Crimes," Priscilla Hayner
• "We Want To Bury Our Dead," Perico Rodriguez
• "The Disappeared Cry in the Shadows," Andrew Graham-Yooll
• "Morality Play with a Cast of One," Robert Block
• "Halting Political Torture and Killing," Ervin Staub

December 3

Readings:

• War Crimes: Brutality, Genocide, Terror, and the Struggle for Justice, Aryeh Neier
• "Chile Under Military Rule, 1973-1989," Lois Hecht Oppenheim
• "The Pinochet Case: Bringing the General to Justice," The Economist
• "Confronting Human Rights Violations Committed by Former Governments: Principles Applicable and Political Constraints," Jose Zalaquett
• Inquiry Reader
• "Assessing the Work of the United Nations War Crime Tribunals," Justice Richard Goldstone, Stanford Law Journal
• "International Judicial Intervention," David Scheffer, Foreign Policy
• "Overcoming the Legacies of Dictatorship," Tina Rosenberg, Foreign Affairs

December 8

Guest Lecturer: Julie Leimbach
A'99, EPIIC '97; Julie spent 1997-98 in South Africa interning with organizations working on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; she's using her research to write a senior thesis in international relations

Readings:

• Reconciliation through Truth: A Reckoning of Apartheid Criminal Governance, Kader Asmal, etc.
• The Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, Wole Soyinka (an excerpt)
• "Guilt is on the Move with All Her Mantles," Kroc

December 22: In-Class Final Exam

December 23: Take-Home Final/Research Paper Due