Please join us for a talk with Jason Sharman, Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations and a fellow of King's College at Cambridge, about his new book, The Despot's Guide to Wealth Management (Cornell University Press, 2017).

An unprecedented new international moral and legal rule forbids one state from hosting money stolen by the leaders of another state. The aim is to counter grand corruption or kleptocracy ("rule by thieves"), when leaders of poorer countries—such as Marcos in the Philippines, Mobutu in the Congo, and more recently those overthrown in revolutions in the Arab world and Ukraine—loot billions of dollars at the expense of their own citizens.

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