Corruption has gradually changed paradigm in the last decade, from a problem attributed to developing countries to a core security problem for the West. In a new short provocative book, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (professor at LUISS Guido Carli and principal investigator of Horizon BridgeGap Project) argues that corruption has become not only a major threat for the democratic process in many liberal democracies but also a major impediment to their security. Globalization and economic hardship have turned the tables on the developed countries, with corrupt norms infusing the Western landscape instead of the other way around. Far from a deviation from the norm, and more often than not in legal form, corruption has become a subversive norm of the democratic order and what used to be called merit-based capitalism. How can the European Union establishment prevent populists from riding the popular anger against political corruption? The Biden administration has made anticorruption a weapon of foreign policy, but what are the chances of winning this war?
Join us for a frank discussion with the author, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Department of Political Science at LUISS Guido Carli.
This event takes place as part of the STG Research Seminar series and Transnational Democracy Cluster. The event will take place in hybrid format at the STG premises in Palazzo Buontalenti. All are welcome to attend. Please register, indicating whether you intend to attend online or in person.