WORLD-WIDE WEB LINKS
This is a list of web links to organizations and publications concerned with corruption issues in formerly-communist nations.
Many of these organizations will have concerns with other issues and regions as well, many offer their own publications and reports, and all present further links on their webpages.
Adam Smith Institute -- International Division
http://www.adamsmithinstitute.com/expertise.htm
Azerbaijan: "Aliyev.com" website (opposition site on Azerbaijan government)
American University -- Transnational Crime and Corruption Center
Washington, DC
http://www.american.edu/transcrime/
Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies
http://www.nobribes.org
"Barometer" Survey Data on Russia, Central/Eastern Europe,
and other
new democracies (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)
Bibliography: World Bank Group Anti-Corruption Knowledge Center
(a large, annoted general bibliography on corruption issues)
http://www.fsa.ulaval.ca/personnel/vernag/EH/F/ethique/corrupt.biblio.html
Bibliography: "Criminal Russia" -- University of Keele, UK
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/hi/modules/313.htm
Bibliography: Pippa Norris (ed.), Critical Citizens: Global
Support for
Democratic Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 1999.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/people/pnorris/References.htm
Bibliography: J. Michael Waller and Victor J. Yasmann,
"Russia's Great Criminal
Revolution: The Role of the Security Services" (Washington: American Foreign
Policy Council).
http://www.afpc.org/issues/crimbib.htm
Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States
(BISNIS) --
US Dept. of Commerce
http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/bisnis/bisnis.html or
http://www.mac.doc.gov/bisnis
Business Ethics Research Websites (as listed by the Zicklin Center,
Wharton
School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~ethics/zicklin/sites.html
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Center for Civil Society International
http://www.friends-partners.org/~ccsi/
Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/
Center for the Study of Democracy -- Sofia, Bulgaria
Center for the Study of Transnational Crime and Corruption -- American University
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/acainst/transcrime/Whoweare.htm
Central and East European Business Center (CEEBIC) -- US Dept of Commerce
http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/eebic/ceebic.html
"Central Eurasia: Making Markets" (Gardner's World Economics)
http://hsb.baylor.edu/html/gardner/CESCH17.HTM
Central Europe Online (Prague Post, Warsaw Voice, Slovak Spectator)
http://centraleurope.com/ceo/media/warsawvoice/voice.html
Copenhagen Business School -- Center for East European Studies (CEES)
http://www.econ.cbs.dk/institutes/cees/pub/pub1.html
"Corruption Risks in the Privatisation Process" (Slovak
Republic) --
Ivan Miklos, 1995.
http://www.internet.sk/mesa10/PRIVAT/CORRUPT.HTM
Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press -- general information
http://slavic.ohio-state.edu/print.htm#current digest
East European Constitutional Review
The quarterly East European Constitutional Review examines political and The English-language edition can be found at www.law.nyu.edu/eecr
(Free subscriptions can be obtained by writing to the editor at
ar55@is8.nyu.edu)
The Russian version (contents differ) is online at www.mpsf.org
Economic Perspectives (USIA Electronic Journal)
November, 1998 (3:5): "Corruption: An Impediment to Development"
http://194.90.114.5/publish/journals/economic/november98/ejtoc.htm or
http://www.arc.org.tw/USIA/www.usia.gov/journals/ites/1198/ijee/ijee1198.htm
Current and archived issues:
http://www.usia.gov/journals/journals.htm
Eurasia Foundation
Eurasia Foundation -- Moscow (Corruption Prevention Program)
http://www.eurasia.org/contact/central_russia.html
Russian-Language Page on Corruption Prevention Program
http://www.eurasia.msk.ru/crimeand.htm
Financial Scandals. (Roy Davies, Compiler)
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals.html
Foreign Affairs magazine
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
Freedom House
Global Forum on Fighting Corruption: Safeguarding Integrity Among
http://www.usia.gov/topical/econ/integrity/homepage.htm
Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) -- Ukraine Project
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK
http://www.ids.ac.uk/
Integra Venture: Islands of Integrity and Small Business Development
in
Central and Eastern Europe
Interactive Central Asia Resource Project (ICARP)
http://www.rockbridge.net/personal/bichel/welcome.htp
International Business Resources -- Links
http://www.library.fullerton.edu/ibizresources.html
International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth (IFLRY)
"Four Years of Freedom" (Proceedings of 1993 seminar in Budapest,
on 1989 and aftermath in Hungary, Latvia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia)
http://worldlib.org/iflry/reports/freedom.html
Internet Center for Corruption Research, Germany
Intranz -- Economies in Transition -- Ukraine
Journal of Democracy
http://jhupress.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/
Lithuania: Special Investigations Service (English version, with link to Lithuanian version)
Moscow Public Science Foundation
http://www.mpsf.org/english.html
Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption
York University, Canada
http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/
National Endowment for Democracy
Nienke's Transition Economics Links (Nienke A. Oomes, Department of
Economics,
University of Wisconsin-Madison) -- Excellent set of web links on
transition economies,
institutions, and corruption issues
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~noomes/trans.html
OECD Anti-Corruption Treaty
Background: http://www.transparency.de/documents/press-releases/1998/1998.5.11.oecd-G7.html
Text: http://www.oecd.org/daf/nocorruption/instruments.htm
OECD Anti-Corruption Unit
http://www.oecd.org/daf/nocorruption/index.htm
OECD General Corruption Bibliography
http://www.oecd.org//daf/nocorruption/Referencentre/general-biblio.htm
OECD "Nocorruption" Reference Centre
http://www.oecd.org//daf/nocorruption/Referencentre/ref.htm
Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ)
http://oicj.acsp.uic.edu/spearmint/index.cfm
Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) -- Prague
Institutute for Journalism in Transition
http://www.omri.cz/transitions/ijt1.html
Open Society Institute -- The Soros Foundation -- Budapest
Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative: http://www.osi.hu/lgi/sitemap.html
CEE Net database: http://www.ceenet.org/database/
Professional Organizations and Major Funding Agencies
(as listed by the University of Pittsburgh REES website)
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb/Programs/prgprof.html
Privatization Link -- World Bank -- privatization in emerging economies
http://www.privatizationlink.com/
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Rule of Law Foundation
Russia Economics Research Program
Russia Votes -- information on upcoming Russian elections,
including poll data
Russian Economy -- Trends and Perspectives -- Monthly Bulletin
http://win.www.online.ru/sp/iet/trends/index.html
SMI.RU -- "Information and Misinformation" (Current Events Reports)
http://english.smi.ru/
SIGMA Program (joint good-governance initiative of the European
Union and
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Transitions Online (former Transitions magazine) -- Prague, Czech Republic
Central/Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union general links page
http://www.transitions-online.org/transitions/links1.html
Transparency International, Berlin
National Chapter Listing: http://www.transparency.de/organisation/chapters/europe.html
Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research (UCIPR)
UCIPR "Corruption Watch"
http://freehosting.at.webjump.com/uc/ucipr-webjump/cwatch.html
Ukraine Rule of Law Foundation -- online
United States Information Agency (USIA)
http://www.usia.gov
USIA: "The Fight Against Bribery and Corruption: A Multinational Effort"
http://www.usia.gov/topical/econ/bribes/homepage.htm
University of Pittsburgh -- Russian and East European Studies
http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb
World Bank Institute (WBI) Governance and Anti-Corruption Website
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/gac/index.htm
World Justice Information Network
World News Connection (from FBIS)