0 Dissertation Locating EUs anti-corruption policies in external relations: An organizational study of the anti-money laundering/combatting the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime in Georgia Rachel Naylor October 2010-May 2014

1 EuroGaps External Relations and External Perceptions in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Black Sea Region Department of Human Geography, Goethe University- Frankfurt am Main

2 Four Cases Studies

3 Partner Institutions Black Sea Region: Ukraine and Georgia Caucasus Research Resource Center, Tbilisi

4 Overview Background Aims and Objectives Research Question Conceptual Background Research design Approach to field work Phases Conclusion and Future Challenges Bibliography

5 European Neighbourhood Policy Priority area 2: business and investment climate fight against corruption Further actions: Fight against organised crime, trafficking in human beings, drugs and money laundering

6 Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT)

7 Research Questions Specifically, two dimensions will be addressed: i) how AML is being mobilized, practiced, and evaluated within the context of Georgia; ii) how it is being constructed as a model from those networks of transnational actors

8 Governmentality Dean, M Governmentality: power and rule in modern society. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. How the regime has a technical or technological dimension and analyses the characteristic techniques, instrumentalities and mechanisms through which such practices operate, by which they attempt to realize their goals, and through which they have a range of effects (Dean 1999: 22).

9 EU Integration: Harmonization Barry, A Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London and New York: Athlone Press. The process of standardization is intended as a process of deterritorialisation in which the mobility of capital or labor is unimpeded and across which uniform forms of social and environmental regulation are possible. But it is also a process which simultaneously forms new zones of control and regulation and creates new sites, object and forms of political conflict (84).

10 Policy Mobility Paradigm Peck J. and Theodore, N Mobilizing Policy: Models, methods, and mutations. Geoforum. 41(2),

11 Research Design 11 Phase 1 Document Analysis Council of Europe Moneyval GRECO MOLI EU ENP ENPI ENP-AP EaP Black Sea Synergy NGOs Transparency International Transnational Crime and Corruption Center International Organizations IMF EBRD World Bank Basel Comm. Wolfsberg Group Rankings Tables Global Integrity Work Bank TI Freedom House Moneyval IMF Literature and Manuals for Experts

12 Research Design – Trace the network

13 Research Design Phase 2 In-Depth, Semi-Structured Interviews (40-50) Phase 1 Government Officials (Georgian) EU-Atlantic Integration Dept. Georgian Financial Supervisory Agency (GFSA) Anti-Corruption Agencies AML-Related OECD-ACN FATF Council of Europe MOLI GRECO Moneyval FSM (FIU) IMOLIN NGOs Transparency International- Georgia TRACC Synergy Private or Semi-Private Regulated credit institutions Banks Microfinance Experts UPGN (UK-Georgian Professional Network Consultants) AYEG (Assoc. Of Young Economists in Georgia)

14 Phase 3 Ethnography Phase 1 Phase 2 Research Design NGOs TI Moneyval FIU Private actors Banks Micro-finance Institution

15 Conclusion and Future Challenges Summary Open Questions Results? EU Integration-lite for Georgia?

16 Bibliography Barry, A Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. London and New York: Athlone Press. Dean, M Governmentality: power and rule in modern society. Los Angeles: Sage Publications. Commission of the European Community European Neighborhood Action Plan Georgia. ap_final_en.pdf. ap_final_en.pdf Peck J. and Theodore, N Mobilizing Policy: Models, methods, and mutations. Geoforum. 41(2),

17 Thank you Rachel Naylor June 2011