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Dissertation

Locating EU’s anti-corruption policies in external relations: An organizational study of the anti-money laundering/combatting

the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime in Georgia

Rachel Naylor

October 2010-May 2014

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EuroGaps

External Relations and External Perceptions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Sea Region

Department of Human Geography, Goethe University-Frankfurt am Main

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Four Cases Studies

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Partner Institutions

Black Sea Region: Ukraine and Georgia

Caucasus Research Resource Center, Tbilisi

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Overview

Background Aims and Objectives Research QuestionConceptual Background

Research design Approach to field work Phases Conclusion and Future ChallengesBibliography

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European Neighbourhood Policy

Priority area 2: business and investment climate fight against corruption

Further actions: Fight against organised crime, trafficking in human beings, drugs and money laundering

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Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)

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Research Questions

Specifically, two dimensions will be addressed:

i) how AML is being mobilized, practiced, and evaluated within the context of Georgia;

ii) how it is being constructed as a model from those networks of transnational actors

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Governmentality

Dean, M. 1999. Governmentality: power and rule in modern society. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

“How the regime has a technical or technological dimension and analyses the characteristic techniques, instrumentalities and mechanisms through which such practices operate, by which they attempt to realize their goals , and through which they have a range of effects” (Dean 1999: 22).

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EU Integration: Harmonization

Barry, A. 2001. Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London and New York: Athlone Press.

“The process of standardization is intended as a process of deterritorialisation in which the mobility of capital or labor is unimpeded

and across which uniform forms of social and environmental regulation are possible. But it is also a process which simultaneously forms new zones of control and regulation and creates new sites, object and forms of political

conflict” (84).

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Policy Mobility Paradigm

Peck J. and Theodore, N. 2010. “Mobilizing Policy: Models, methods, and mutations” . Geoforum. 41(2), 169-174.

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Research Design

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Phase 1

Document Analysis

Council of Europe

MoneyvalGRECOMOLI

EU

ENPENPI

ENP-APEaP

Black Sea Synergy

NGOsTransparency International

Transnational Crime and Corruption

Center

International Organizations

IMFEBRD

World BankBasel Comm.

Wolfsberg Group

Rankings TablesGlobal Integrity

Work BankTI

Freedom HouseMoneyval

IMF

Literature and

Manuals for

Experts

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Research Design – Trace the network

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Research DesignPhase 2

In-Depth, Semi-Structured

Interviews(40-50)

Phase 1

Government Officials (Georgian)

EU-Atlantic Integration Dept.Georgian Financial Supervisory Agency

(GFSA)Anti-Corruption Agencies

AML-Related

OECD-ACNFATF

Council of EuropeMOLI

GRECOMoneyvalFSM (FIU)IMOLIN

NGOsTransparency International-

Georgia TRACC

Synergy

Private or Semi-Private

Regulated credit institutionsBanks

Microfinance

ExpertsUPGN (UK-Georgian Professional

Network

Consultants)

AYEG (Assoc. Of Young Economists in Georgia)

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Phase 3

Ethnography

Phase 1

Phase 2

Research Design

NGOsTI

MoneyvalFIU

Private actorsBanks

Micro-finance Institution

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Conclusion and Future Challenges

Summary Open Questions Results? EU Integration-lite for Georgia?

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Bibliography

Barry, A. 2001. Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London and New York: Athlone Press.

Dean, M. 1999. Governmentality: power and rule in modern society. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.

Commission of the European Community. 2005. European Neighborhood Action Plan Georgia. http://ec.europa.eu/world/enp/pdf/action_plans/georgia_enp_ap_final_en.pdf.

Peck J. and Theodore, N. 2010. “Mobilizing Policy: Models, methods, and mutations”. Geoforum. 41(2), 169-174.

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Thank you

Rachel Naylor

rachelelizabethnaylor@gmail.com

June 2011