WORLD-WIDE WEB LINKS

This is a list of web links to organizations and publications concerned with corruption issues in formerly-communist nations.

 

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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)

http://www.aliyev.com/

 

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)

http://www.cspp.strath.ac.uk

 

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

http://www.ceip.org/

 

Center for Civil Society International

http://www.friends-partners.org/~ccsi/

 

Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)

http://www.cipe.org/

 

Center for Public Integrity, Washington, DC.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/

 

Center for the Study of Democracy -- Sofia, Bulgaria

www.csd.bg

 

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
    legal issues relating to the rule of law. It covers developments in
    Russia and the New Independent States as well as Eastern and Central
    Europe.

    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

http://www.eurasia.org/

 

        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

http://www.freedomhouse.org/

 

Global Forum on Fighting Corruption: Safeguarding Integrity Among
Justice and Security Officials (1999)

http://www.usia.gov/topical/econ/integrity/homepage.htm

 

Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) -- Ukraine Project

http://www.harvard.kiev.ua/

 

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

http://www.integra.sk/

 

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

http://www.gwdg.de/~uwvw/

 

Intranz -- Economies in Transition -- Ukraine

http://intranz.eerc.kiev.ua/

 

Journal of Democracy

http://jhupress.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/

 

Lithuania: Special Investigations Service (English version, with link to Lithuanian version)

http://www.stt.lt/indexe.htm

 

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

http://www.ned.org/

 

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

http://www.omri.cz/

        Institutute for Journalism in Transition

        http://www.omri.cz/transitions/ijt1.html

 

Open Society Institute -- The Soros Foundation -- Budapest

http://www.osi.hu/

        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

http://www.rferl.org/

 

Rule of Law Foundation

http://www.rol.org

 

Russia Economics Research Program

http://www.eerc.ru/

 

Russia Votes -- information on upcoming Russian elections,
including poll data

http://www.russiavotes.org/

 

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)

http://www.oecd.org/puma/sigmaweb

 

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

http://www.transparency.de/

National Chapter Listing: http://www.transparency.de/organisation/chapters/europe.html

 

Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research (UCIPR)

http://ucipr.webjump.com

        UCIPR "Corruption Watch"

        http://freehosting.at.webjump.com/uc/ucipr-webjump/cwatch.html

 

Ukraine Rule of Law Foundation -- online

http://www.rol.kiev.ua/

 

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

http://www.wjin.net

 

World News Connection (from FBIS)

http://wnc.fedworld.gov/

 

 


 

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