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Starting and Stopping Points: A Response to Stavros Gadinis

Part of: Stavros Gadinis, “Three Pathways to Global Standards: Private, Regulator, and Ministry Networks”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Fleur Johns
Fleur Johns*
Affiliation:
UNSW Australia
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Open the website of the Financial Action Task Force (or FATF) and find your way to the “FATF Presidency” page. Up until the end of June 2015, you would have encountered a headshot of a dapper fellow with smiling eyes and a pink bowtie: Roger Wilkins OA, President of FATF between July 2014 and June 2015. A one time “mandarin” of the public service in Australia (former Secretary of the federal Attorney-General’s Department in that country), Mr. Wilkins seems an apt embodiment of those qualities that Stavros Gadinis would have us see in the FATF, as a “ministry executives” network. It seems entirely plausible to cast Wilkins as a vehicle of such networks’ “key motivation”—to pursue “broad societal goals.” From his record, he seems well suited to the role of guardian of “states’ interests” in a “secure environment,” deft at deploying his “longstanding connections” and “power relations” in order to “strike deals” and, where necessary, unleash “sanctions’ firepower.” In short, Mr. Wilkins seems to “fit neatly within the three types—private, regulator, ministry” around which Stavros Gadinis’ thought-provoking article revolves.

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Symposium on Stavros Gadinis, “Three Pathways to Global Standards: Private, Regulator, and Ministry Networks”
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AJIL Unbound , Volume 109 , 2015 , pp. 39 - 43
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

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