Analysis Paper - Corruption as a geopolitical factor Abstract Keywords:

In this regard, one of the key elements, in addition to the purely cultural, is that of institutional quality and, above all, the enshrinement of the principle of legal certainty, of the reign of justice. [...] In addition to undermining the rule of law and even civil society itself, separating the latter from the state apparatus and undermining social cohesion by calling into question the morality of the group, corruption increases ethical and political dilemmas, favouring the establishment of criminal groups hanging on to the structures of the state they parasitise because this also serves to associate. [...] Moreover, systemic corruption is an auto-immune disease, becoming a culture with a web of unions and clientelistic networks resulting from the sclerotisation of the system and the fracture between society and state, and associating crises of legitimacy, political stability, national integration, inequity in the distribution of resources, the rentier nature of the state, the breakdown of bureaucrat. [...] Similarly, the opacity of financial transactions and banking secrecy, which are unacceptable in the 21st century, put a brake on the eradication of corrupt practices, aggravated by the lack of knowledge and insufficient supervision (non-regulation) of political leaders and even of economists themselves, and overtaken by the enormous expansion of communications and the globalisation of financial fl. [...] This is an expression of the mismatch between the institutional and cultural frameworks of society, or worse, of the lack of density and fragility of the latter.