International Trade

A former US Treasury special agent maps how criminal proceeds really move - mispriced trade, hawala, commodities - and why anti-money laundering regimes built around wire transfers miss most of it.

A security studies professor traces thirty years of Western self-overestimation, from post-Cold War triumphalism to today's disorder, and asks what a more honest foreign policy would look like.

Written for investigators rather than compliance officers, Madinger's manual explains how the money actually moves: placement, layering, integration, trade-based laundering, and the net worth method that tests a stated picture.

Money laundering is usually taught from the compliance seat. Peter Lilley describes it as an industry — jurisdictions, professional enablers, typologies — and shows why the structure itself is the finding.