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Charles Davidson
Former Executive Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
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Spain’s Judge José Grinda Gonzalez and U.S. experts discuss investigating and prosecuting Russian organized crime
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse speaks at the release of a new report from Hudson's Kleptocracy Initiative, The United States of Anonymity
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A conference on threats caused by kleptocracies from terrorism and organized crime to state failure and genocide
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Ilya Zaslavskiy, Jeffrey Gedmin, David Kramer, Louise Shelley, Sarah Chayes, Richard Kauzlarich, Charles Davidson, Paul Massaro on kleptocratic norms
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Kendall Day, Bill Corcoran, Charles Davidson, Karen Greenaway, Gary Kalman & Frank Vogl on US initiatives addressing kleptocracy and corruption
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Marius Laurinavicius, Jeffrey Gedmin, Hannah Thoburn and Charles Davidson on Weaponizing Kleptocracy: Putin’s Hybrid Warfare and Russian kleptocracy
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Christian Danielsson, Craig Kennedy, Charles Davidson and Benjamin Haddad discuss US-EU cooperation, migration, security, and economic development.
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Oleksandr Danyliuk, Minister of Finance of Ukraine, Charles Davidson, and Walter Russell Mead on financial corruption reform
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Minxin Pei, Richard McGregor, Andrew Wedeman, Evan Osnos, and Charles Davidson discuss China’s Crony Capitalism and kleptocracy in China.
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Discussion of The Kleptocracy Curse, a report on kleptocracy, with Charles Davidson, Benjamin Haddad, Ben Judah, Thomas Firestone and Karen Dawisha
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Hudson Institute’s Kleptocracy Initiative hosts a discussion of the threats posed by kleptocracy to states bordering the Russian Federation.
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Francis Fukuyama, Walter Russell Mead, Tyler Cowen, Adam Garfinkle, Nils Gilman, Kurt Volker, Jeffrey Winters & Charles Davidson on liberalism in 2016
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David Satter, Kevin Klose, Carl Gershman, and Robert Amsterdam discuss Satter's book on Putin and the FSB's role in the 1999 apartment bombings.
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