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Auby, Jean-Bernard; Breen, Emmanuel; Perroud, Thomas --- "Introduction" [2014] ELECD 151; in Auby, Jean-Bernard; Breen, Emmanuel; Perroud, Thomas (eds), "Corruption and Conflicts of Interest" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014) xiv

Book Title: Corruption and Conflicts of Interest

Editor(s): Auby, Jean-Bernard; Breen, Emmanuel; Perroud, Thomas

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781009345

Section Title: Introduction

Author(s): Auby, Jean-Bernard; Breen, Emmanuel; Perroud, Thomas

Number of pages: 13

Extract:

Introduction
Jean-Bernard Auby, Emmanuel Breen and
Thomas Perroud

As in all periods of rapid economic development and political upheaval
our era of globalization brings corruption and conflicts of interests into
the spotlight. The many snapshots in this volume, most of them taken
from European windows, show how difficult it is today ­ and likely still
will be tomorrow ­ to devise global legislative and judicial responses.
Most comparative papers gathered here show that global regulations
are doomed to bump up against strong cultural resistances, in particular
when dealing with the more subtle patterns of conflicts of interest ­ a
notion that is far from being regulated at all in every country, let alone
being defined or addressed in compatible ways, even within the borders
of the old continent. As with other domains of transnational ethical
endeavors, a `one-size-fits-all' stance by international organizations or
other transnational players would run the risk of fueling a cultural
backlash.
And in their response, the multitude of sovereignties would undoubt-
edly point to the fact that international organizations themselves, not
excluding by any means the European Union, have not fully consolidated
their system for mitigating their own risks of corruption and conflicts of
interest.


PART I CONFLICTS OF INTEREST AND
CORRUPTION: A FINE LINE?
Opening the volume with a broad reflection on the definition of corrup-
tion and conflicts of interest, Susan Rose-Ackerman (`Corruption and
conflicts of interest') starts by noting that in our complex modern
societies an individual may play many roles ...