Πέραν της διαφθοράς: προοπτικές ηθικής διακυβέρνησης

Abstract

This article approaches corruption in the context of both the corruption literature and the literature on ethics in international relations theory. It attempts to reconceptualize corruption more broadly than the use of public office for private gain, and to visualize corruption as a bridge between public service ethics and ethics in international relations. It uses the Oil-for-Food Program of the United Nations imposed on Iraq to illustrate the complexity of corruption in global governance. Its chief recommendation -bearing in mind that the design and delivery of effective anti-corruption initiatives presuppose a vision of a good polity—is that trust and moral agency be incorporated into global governance, instead of continuing to cede the moral ground to the so-called realist position.