Just Security presents this symposium on the intersection of sanctions and corruption. The contributions to this Symposium were initially drafted for a Perry World House conference on “The Intersection of Sanctions and Corruption,” which was made possible in part by a generous grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Sanctions and anti-corruption efforts are often treated as parallel but distinct policy domains. This Symposium brings together experts from both fields to examine how these two interact in practice. The contributions explore whether existing sanctions tools are equipped to address corruption at scale, how professional and financial enablers evade accountability, and what it means when corruption has become institutional and legalized.
We encourage you to visit this page regularly, as the Symposium will be updated with new installments as they are published.
- Marie E. Harf, Introducing a New Symposium: The Intersection of Sanctions and Corruption (May 13, 2026)
- Richard Nephew, Three Lessons from the Intersection of Sanctions and Corruption (May 13, 2026)
- Susan Carter, George A. Lopez and Alistair Millar, Overcoming Crime and Corruption in Post-Sanctions Situations (May 15, 2026)
- Casey Michel, The United States: Sanctions Implementer and Sanctions Safe Haven? (May 18, 2026)
- Matthew H. Murray, Sanctions Towards Russia Are Not a Strategy: Toward a More Coherent Statecraft (May 21, 2026)
- Peter Kucik, The Weaponization of GLOMAG: How Rivals Co-opt U.S. Sanctions to Target Business and Political Opponents (May 28, 2026)
- William Burke-White, Sanctions Gaps and the Governance of Corruption Risk (June 4, 2026)
