News from GI ACE

A new volume from Edward Elgar Publishing, Handbook of Research Methods for Corruption Studies, features a chapter authored by former GI ACE Director Professor Paul M. Heywood and GI ACE Researcher Devi Pillay.

A new volume, Violence, Coercion, and the Politics of State Capture (Contemporary Security Studies) features a chapter co-authored by GI ACE Research Fellow Tom Shipley and Ketakandriana Rafitoson.

The UK Anti-Corruption Strategy 2025, published 8 December 2025, draws directly on evidence generated by Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI ACE) and its sister research programmes.

Illicit financial flows tied to sanctions evasion are surging across the Western Balkans and Black Sea region, creating hidden trade routes that help sustain Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to a new paper by the Center for the Study of Democracy, part of the GI ACE Programme at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, University of Sussex.

A new GI ACE study by Devi Pillay shows how McKinsey, working with Regiments and Trillian, helped drive South Africa’s state capture by weakening public institutions while profiting from corrupt contracts.

This inaugural Fellowship is a joint initiative by GI ACE at the Centre for the Study of Corruption and the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN), created to support research by early career researchers from the Global South.

A new policy paper from the Center for the Study of Democracy, published under the GI ACE programme, has revealed that IFFs in the Western Balkans and Black Sea region surged to an estimated USD 31 billion in 2023.