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May 9, 2023

Fighting Hizballah Should Be on the U.S. Anti-Corruption Agenda

The organization’s network of crime and graft stretches from West Africa to Paraguay.

In 2021, the Biden administration announced that countering corruption abroad should be considered a “core United States national-security interest,” and mobilized a variety of government resources to advance this agenda. Emanuele Ottolenghi finds this initiative laudable, but takes the White House to task for failing to connect it to the fight on terrorism and on the international drug trade, all of which are inextricably linked. Nowhere is this nexus more evident than in the activities of Hizballah:

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