Chapter 1. The Crisis of Corruption
Chapter 2. "Being a Friend in a Nest of Vipers"
Chapter 3. Corruption and the Competition for Power
Chapter 4. The Kleptocracy Kings
Chapter 5. "An Octopus that Reaches around the Globe"
Chapter 6. Corruption's Motley Foes
Chapter 7. We Know How to Fight Corruption.
Notes
References
Index
Alexandra Gillies is an advisor at the Natural Resource Governance Institute, a not-for-profit group. She has worked to promote transparency and combat corruption in the oil sector for more than ten years. Gillies holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Cambridge, where she researched the politics of Nigeria's oil sector. She lives in New York City.
"Alexandra Gillies has written an essential primer on the new world
order, in which kleptocrats are hijacking the global economy. She
writes with the courage and insight of someone who has spent many
years infuriating those kleptocrats. Crude Intentions is
comprehensive: it needs to be, given the oil industry's
scorched-earth approach to the truth. Yet at times it reads like a
crime thriller. Gillies shows us how, from Goldman Sachs to
Goodluck Jonathan,
Rosneft to the Republican Party, the corruption pandemic has spread
worldwide. Her book pulses with a spirit not of despair but of
action: don't let them get away with it." -- Tom Burgis, author of
The
Looting Machine
"This is a superlative book by one of the stars of the effort to
investigate the opaque and dangerous world of oil corruption. The
practices laid out here are widespread. Her section on the United
States demonstrates that wealthy countries aren't just the
beneficiaries of corrupt money: it undermines their democracies
too. And, as a glance at the U.S. states of West Virginia or
Louisiana, or Alberta, Canada testifies, it leaves 'sacrifice
zones' in those
countries just as it does in Nigeria or Brazil. Gillies concludes
with some common sense approaches to addressing this peril." --
Sarah Chayes , author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens
Global
Security
"This extraordinary book brings together the most outrageous cases
of how corruption in oil, gas, and other extractive industries
contaminates the world. Having dealt with the gory details and
catastrophic costs of corruption for more than a quarter century as
leader of Transparency International (TI), I was so fascinated by
this brilliant record of the grim reality and often heroic defense
against it, that I could hardly stop reading. Yes, the
spectacular
cases presented in great detail for Brasil, Malaysia, Nigeria, the
United States and other countries are depressing, even when their
discovery and sanction gives some hope and sense of progress. The
credit
for these international wins goes to the interaction of
governments, business, civil society, and the media-a conclusion
shared by TI and other multi-stakeholder approaches to fighting
corruption. " -- Peter Eigen, Founder and Advisory Council
Chairman, Transparency International (TI)
"Readers will be gripped by a disciplined and magnificent
exploration of the vast landscape of kleptocracy in resource-rich
countries. Literatures on corruption tend to be voyeuristic, but
what we encounter here is the sensitive management of facts and an
affective concern for the communities Gillies writes about. These
two factors, plus a healthy ethical intellectual imagination,
ultimately liberate this hugely important book from the voguish
predilection to
merely tickle and jeer." -- Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher of Premium
Times, Nigeria
"We live in a golden age for kleptocrats. The governments and firms
that control the supply of petroleum-the world's most valuable
commodity-have enjoyed 20 years of windfall profits. In this
gripping, deeply-informed, book, Alex Gillies reveals the intricate
deceptions, unwitting enablers, and extravagant fraud that has
turned this oil into staggering wealth, power, and corruption. This
is a uniquely enlightening book with a wealth of insights about how
these
crimes happen and what we must do to fix them." -- Michael Ross,
Professor of Political Science, UCLA, and author ofÂThe Oil Curse
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