William Vlcek
Biographic Data
| ID | 2326019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Vlcek |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Vlcek |
| SIGNATURE | VLCEK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8647-5258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A tale of two currencies: Talking about money and (De)Securitising moves in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum
This article investigates a ‘tale of two currencies’ that played out during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Taking our cue from securitisation literature, we examine what happens when currency is framed as a security issue and threat. Studying this case, however, we find that the Copenhagen School underestimate the ability of actors to perform (de)securitising moves within interactive games about financial security. In such instances, …
Forum on Pedagogy: The Introductory Course in International Relations: Regional Variations
This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom–Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductor…
Drowning the Greek economy: Injurious speech and sovereign debt
Drawing on Judith Butler's concept of injurious speech, this article conceptualises the 'Grexit' crisis as a series of performances. More specifically, we investigate how the Greek government framed the bailout plans tabled by the Troika as a form of torture. By adopting phrases such as 'fiscal water-boarding', 'asphyxiation', and 'suicide', the Syriza government sought to narrate the harm inflicted on Greece by its creditors. Paying attention to…
Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories
Academic research on small states often highlights the limitations that confront them. A small state is limited across the spectrum of society and economy—small territory, small population, limited
Taking other people's money: Development and the political economy of Asian casinos
This article analyses Macau's casinos as an example for accumulation by dispossession, in which they serve to transfer wealth from Mainland China to Macau and the casinos' foreign investors. They also represent a model for economic development and this model has migrated to Singapore, where it also operates as a form of accumulation by dispossession. By requiring citizens to pay an entrance fee, Singapore's casinos explicitly appropriate other pe…
The Political Economy of Divided Islands Unified Geographies, Multiple Polities
Crafting human rights in a constitution: Gay rights in the Cayman Islands and the limits to global norm diffusion
This paper considers the introduction of a bill of rights to a territory’s constitution as an example of the transnational transfer of norms. Using the case of the Cayman Islands Constitution promulgated in 2009 this analysis looks specifically at the creation of its bill of rights in light of local debate following the legalisation of homosexuality forced by the United Kingdom in 2000. The unique constitutional structure framing the political re…
Securitizing Money to Counter Terrorist Finance: Some Unintended Consequences for Developing Economies
With its roots in the “war on drugs” and the criminalization of money laundering, the global initiative to combat the financing of terrorism (CFT) provides one strategy for preventing and preempting terrorist attacks. In public pronouncements, terrorist finance was named the “lifeblood” and “oxygen” for terrorism itself, thus displaying an analogy suggesting that its mere removal could bring an end to terrorism. Following the theoretical perspect…
From Road Town to Shanghai: Situating the Caribbean in Global Capital Flows to China
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Assesses the role of Caribbean offshore financial centres (OFCs) in FDI flows to China. Argues the OFC provides financial intermediation services beyond simply tax minimisation. Demonstrates a similar use of the OFC in other developing economies. Suggests the position of the OFC in global finance continues to evolve. This article examines the prominent location of offshore financial centres (OFCs) am…
The Global Pursuit of Tax Revenue: Would Tax Haven Reform Equal Increased Tax Revenues in Developing States
FootnoteThe title question reflects an embedded assumption present in a selection of academic publications and civil society reports considered here, and juxtaposed against the institutional capacity of developing state tax administrations. One conclusion in this literature is that eliminating tax havens will lead to increased tax revenue for the developing economy. However, the role performed by the tax haven generally serves more to reduce tax …
Tax Havens and Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands
This book builds on existing academic literature for tax havens/offshore financial centres (OFCs) to provide a close examination of tax havens hosted on a Pacific island. It finds the experience in
Power and the practice of security to govern global finance
While the end of the Bretton Woods system led to deregulation and increased international capital flows, the trend over the past two decades has been toward increased international financial supervision. Aspects for an emerging structure of global governance are congealing into a form of ‘financial governmentality’ as a means to secure society and to isolate criminal and terrorist money. Efforts to defend society from organised crime and transnat…
Offshore finance in Ghana: Why not
Byways and Highways of Direct Investment: China and the Offshore World
This paper examines a lacuna in the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to China: the absence of analysis for the prominent location of small Caribbean and Pacific islands as leading sources of FDI. An indeterminate amount of domestic capital is embedded in these FDI flows, which distorts comparative studies on FDI in developing economies between China and other states. Direct investment from China has also increased in recent yea…
Money laundering prevention and small state development: Insights from the case of the Bahamas
This paper analyses the impact to the financial sector of small states from the regulatory mandates of global financial governance against money laundering and terrorist finance. As an acknowledged and documented strategy for economic development, the experience of the offshore financial sector of the Bahamas is central to this analysis. Enacting new legislation was politically divisive in the Bahamas, because of a recognition that it could lead …
Alongside global political economy — a rhizome of informal finance
Hitting the right target: EU and Security Council pursuit of terrorist financing
This article analyses one specific instance of the use of targeted sanctions to combat the financing of terrorism by the European Union on behalf of the United Nations Security Council. The case raised a number of issues involving the use of sanctions against non-state actors and provoked a legal challenge at the European Court of Justice. These European court cases have been portrayed as a challenge to the use of targeted sanctions by the Securi…
A level playing field and the space for small states
Behind an Offshore Mask: Sovereignty games in the global political economy
This study of global financial flows and offshore financial centres (OFCs) draws on the concept of nomadology as developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to argue that OFCs not only facilitate the circulation of global capital, but also serve to create the means for identity arbitrage. This concept highlights the use of the offshore in order to benefit from the variety of preferential measures offered to foreign firms and investment capital…
Development vs. Terrorism: Money Transfers and EU Financial Regulations in the UK
This article considers recent developments in the campaign to combat terrorist financing in Europe and the intersection of these measures with the flow of migrant remittances from the European Union (EU) to third countries. Migrants frequently leave behind families that they expect to support from their earnings. Measures to combat the financing of terrorism (CFT) and the related increase in anti-money laundering (AML) regulation make it increasi…
A Leviathan Rejuvenated: Surveillance, Money Laundering, and the War on Terror
Money, Terror and Protecting the West
Competitive or Coercive? The Experience of Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres with Global Governance
This article examines the readiness to be internationally competitive on the part of small vulnerable economies through a consideration of Caribbean offshore financial centres. More specifically, it analyses the space for decision making to enhance the competitiveness of financial service provision permitted by the increased institutionalization of global financial governance. The promulgation of international standards and best practices for the…
Why worry? The impact of the OECD harmful tax competition initiative on Caribbean offshore financial centres
The economies of small states are vulnerable to a variety of external factors—economic, political and environmental. One economic/financial factor confronting those small states with offshore financial centres has been the effort by the OECD to eliminate tax arbitrage (harmful tax competition). A related initiative to eliminate money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism has increased the regulatory responsibilities and costs to these …
The OECD and offshore financial centres: Rearguard action against globalisation
With publication of Harmful Tax Competition: An Emerging Global Issue the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated a campaign to eliminate income tax competition. The OECD characterised income tax rate competition between states as ‘harmful’. The advancement of communication technologies has broadened and deepened opportunities for citizens to utilise this gap within international relations to avoid taxes. Using tech…
Why worry? The impact of the OECD harmful tax competition initiative on Caribbean offshore financial centres
The economies of small states are vulnerable to a variety of external factors—economic, political and environmental. One economic/financial factor confronting those small states with offshore financial centres has been the effort by the OECD to eliminate tax arbitrage (harmful tax competition). A related initiative to eliminate money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism has increased the regulatory responsibilities and costs to these …
From Road Town to Shanghai: Situating the Caribbean in Global Capital Flows to China
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Assesses the role of Caribbean offshore financial centres (OFCs) in FDI flows to China. Argues the OFC provides financial intermediation services beyond simply tax minimisation. Demonstrates a similar use of the OFC in other developing economies. Suggests the position of the OFC in global finance continues to evolve. This article examines the prominent location of offshore financial centres (OFCs) am…
Power and the practice of security to govern global finance
While the end of the Bretton Woods system led to deregulation and increased international capital flows, the trend over the past two decades has been toward increased international financial supervision. Aspects for an emerging structure of global governance are congealing into a form of ‘financial governmentality’ as a means to secure society and to isolate criminal and terrorist money. Efforts to defend society from organised crime and transnat…
A Leviathan Rejuvenated: Surveillance, Money Laundering, and the War on Terror
Byways and Highways of Direct Investment: China and the Offshore World
This paper examines a lacuna in the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to China: the absence of analysis for the prominent location of small Caribbean and Pacific islands as leading sources of FDI. An indeterminate amount of domestic capital is embedded in these FDI flows, which distorts comparative studies on FDI in developing economies between China and other states. Direct investment from China has also increased in recent yea…
Alongside global political economy — a rhizome of informal finance
Development vs. Terrorism: Money Transfers and EU Financial Regulations in the UK
This article considers recent developments in the campaign to combat terrorist financing in Europe and the intersection of these measures with the flow of migrant remittances from the European Union (EU) to third countries. Migrants frequently leave behind families that they expect to support from their earnings. Measures to combat the financing of terrorism (CFT) and the related increase in anti-money laundering (AML) regulation make it increasi…
Tax Havens and Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands
This book builds on existing academic literature for tax havens/offshore financial centres (OFCs) to provide a close examination of tax havens hosted on a Pacific island. It finds the experience in
Forum on Pedagogy: The Introductory Course in International Relations: Regional Variations
This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom–Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductor…
Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories
Academic research on small states often highlights the limitations that confront them. A small state is limited across the spectrum of society and economy—small territory, small population, limited
The Political Economy of Divided Islands Unified Geographies, Multiple Polities
Crafting human rights in a constitution: Gay rights in the Cayman Islands and the limits to global norm diffusion
This paper considers the introduction of a bill of rights to a territory’s constitution as an example of the transnational transfer of norms. Using the case of the Cayman Islands Constitution promulgated in 2009 this analysis looks specifically at the creation of its bill of rights in light of local debate following the legalisation of homosexuality forced by the United Kingdom in 2000. The unique constitutional structure framing the political re…
Securitizing Money to Counter Terrorist Finance: Some Unintended Consequences for Developing Economies
With its roots in the “war on drugs” and the criminalization of money laundering, the global initiative to combat the financing of terrorism (CFT) provides one strategy for preventing and preempting terrorist attacks. In public pronouncements, terrorist finance was named the “lifeblood” and “oxygen” for terrorism itself, thus displaying an analogy suggesting that its mere removal could bring an end to terrorism. Following the theoretical perspect…
Money, Terror and Protecting the West
Drowning the Greek economy: Injurious speech and sovereign debt
Drawing on Judith Butler's concept of injurious speech, this article conceptualises the 'Grexit' crisis as a series of performances. More specifically, we investigate how the Greek government framed the bailout plans tabled by the Troika as a form of torture. By adopting phrases such as 'fiscal water-boarding', 'asphyxiation', and 'suicide', the Syriza government sought to narrate the harm inflicted on Greece by its creditors. Paying attention to…
Offshore finance in Ghana: Why not
Money laundering prevention and small state development: Insights from the case of the Bahamas
This paper analyses the impact to the financial sector of small states from the regulatory mandates of global financial governance against money laundering and terrorist finance. As an acknowledged and documented strategy for economic development, the experience of the offshore financial sector of the Bahamas is central to this analysis. Enacting new legislation was politically divisive in the Bahamas, because of a recognition that it could lead …
Hitting the right target: EU and Security Council pursuit of terrorist financing
This article analyses one specific instance of the use of targeted sanctions to combat the financing of terrorism by the European Union on behalf of the United Nations Security Council. The case raised a number of issues involving the use of sanctions against non-state actors and provoked a legal challenge at the European Court of Justice. These European court cases have been portrayed as a challenge to the use of targeted sanctions by the Securi…
A level playing field and the space for small states
Competitive or Coercive? The Experience of Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres with Global Governance
This article examines the readiness to be internationally competitive on the part of small vulnerable economies through a consideration of Caribbean offshore financial centres. More specifically, it analyses the space for decision making to enhance the competitiveness of financial service provision permitted by the increased institutionalization of global financial governance. The promulgation of international standards and best practices for the…
The OECD and offshore financial centres: Rearguard action against globalisation
With publication of Harmful Tax Competition: An Emerging Global Issue the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated a campaign to eliminate income tax competition. The OECD characterised income tax rate competition between states as ‘harmful’. The advancement of communication technologies has broadened and deepened opportunities for citizens to utilise this gap within international relations to avoid taxes. Using tech…
The OECD and offshore financial centres: Rearguard action against globalisation
With publication of Harmful Tax Competition: An Emerging Global Issue the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated a campaign to eliminate income tax competition. The OECD characterised income tax rate competition between states as ‘harmful’. The advancement of communication technologies has broadened and deepened opportunities for citizens to utilise this gap within international relations to avoid taxes. Using tech…
Why worry? The impact of the OECD harmful tax competition initiative on Caribbean offshore financial centres
The economies of small states are vulnerable to a variety of external factors—economic, political and environmental. One economic/financial factor confronting those small states with offshore financial centres has been the effort by the OECD to eliminate tax arbitrage (harmful tax competition). A related initiative to eliminate money laundering and combat the financing of terrorism has increased the regulatory responsibilities and costs to these …
Development vs. Terrorism: Money Transfers and EU Financial Regulations in the UK
This article considers recent developments in the campaign to combat terrorist financing in Europe and the intersection of these measures with the flow of migrant remittances from the European Union (EU) to third countries. Migrants frequently leave behind families that they expect to support from their earnings. Measures to combat the financing of terrorism (CFT) and the related increase in anti-money laundering (AML) regulation make it increasi…
A Leviathan Rejuvenated: Surveillance, Money Laundering, and the War on Terror
Money, Terror and Protecting the West
Competitive or Coercive? The Experience of Caribbean Offshore Financial Centres with Global Governance
This article examines the readiness to be internationally competitive on the part of small vulnerable economies through a consideration of Caribbean offshore financial centres. More specifically, it analyses the space for decision making to enhance the competitiveness of financial service provision permitted by the increased institutionalization of global financial governance. The promulgation of international standards and best practices for the…
Hitting the right target: EU and Security Council pursuit of terrorist financing
This article analyses one specific instance of the use of targeted sanctions to combat the financing of terrorism by the European Union on behalf of the United Nations Security Council. The case raised a number of issues involving the use of sanctions against non-state actors and provoked a legal challenge at the European Court of Justice. These European court cases have been portrayed as a challenge to the use of targeted sanctions by the Securi…
A level playing field and the space for small states
Behind an Offshore Mask: Sovereignty games in the global political economy
This study of global financial flows and offshore financial centres (OFCs) draws on the concept of nomadology as developed by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to argue that OFCs not only facilitate the circulation of global capital, but also serve to create the means for identity arbitrage. This concept highlights the use of the offshore in order to benefit from the variety of preferential measures offered to foreign firms and investment capital…
Byways and Highways of Direct Investment: China and the Offshore World
This paper examines a lacuna in the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to China: the absence of analysis for the prominent location of small Caribbean and Pacific islands as leading sources of FDI. An indeterminate amount of domestic capital is embedded in these FDI flows, which distorts comparative studies on FDI in developing economies between China and other states. Direct investment from China has also increased in recent yea…
Money laundering prevention and small state development: Insights from the case of the Bahamas
This paper analyses the impact to the financial sector of small states from the regulatory mandates of global financial governance against money laundering and terrorist finance. As an acknowledged and documented strategy for economic development, the experience of the offshore financial sector of the Bahamas is central to this analysis. Enacting new legislation was politically divisive in the Bahamas, because of a recognition that it could lead …
Alongside global political economy — a rhizome of informal finance
Power and the practice of security to govern global finance
While the end of the Bretton Woods system led to deregulation and increased international capital flows, the trend over the past two decades has been toward increased international financial supervision. Aspects for an emerging structure of global governance are congealing into a form of ‘financial governmentality’ as a means to secure society and to isolate criminal and terrorist money. Efforts to defend society from organised crime and transnat…
Offshore finance in Ghana: Why not
Crafting human rights in a constitution: Gay rights in the Cayman Islands and the limits to global norm diffusion
This paper considers the introduction of a bill of rights to a territory’s constitution as an example of the transnational transfer of norms. Using the case of the Cayman Islands Constitution promulgated in 2009 this analysis looks specifically at the creation of its bill of rights in light of local debate following the legalisation of homosexuality forced by the United Kingdom in 2000. The unique constitutional structure framing the political re…
Securitizing Money to Counter Terrorist Finance: Some Unintended Consequences for Developing Economies
With its roots in the “war on drugs” and the criminalization of money laundering, the global initiative to combat the financing of terrorism (CFT) provides one strategy for preventing and preempting terrorist attacks. In public pronouncements, terrorist finance was named the “lifeblood” and “oxygen” for terrorism itself, thus displaying an analogy suggesting that its mere removal could bring an end to terrorism. Following the theoretical perspect…
From Road Town to Shanghai: Situating the Caribbean in Global Capital Flows to China
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Assesses the role of Caribbean offshore financial centres (OFCs) in FDI flows to China. Argues the OFC provides financial intermediation services beyond simply tax minimisation. Demonstrates a similar use of the OFC in other developing economies. Suggests the position of the OFC in global finance continues to evolve. This article examines the prominent location of offshore financial centres (OFCs) am…
The Global Pursuit of Tax Revenue: Would Tax Haven Reform Equal Increased Tax Revenues in Developing States
FootnoteThe title question reflects an embedded assumption present in a selection of academic publications and civil society reports considered here, and juxtaposed against the institutional capacity of developing state tax administrations. One conclusion in this literature is that eliminating tax havens will lead to increased tax revenue for the developing economy. However, the role performed by the tax haven generally serves more to reduce tax …
Tax Havens and Sovereignty in the Pacific Islands
This book builds on existing academic literature for tax havens/offshore financial centres (OFCs) to provide a close examination of tax havens hosted on a Pacific island. It finds the experience in
The Political Economy of Divided Islands Unified Geographies, Multiple Polities
Taking other people's money: Development and the political economy of Asian casinos
This article analyses Macau's casinos as an example for accumulation by dispossession, in which they serve to transfer wealth from Mainland China to Macau and the casinos' foreign investors. They also represent a model for economic development and this model has migrated to Singapore, where it also operates as a form of accumulation by dispossession. By requiring citizens to pay an entrance fee, Singapore's casinos explicitly appropriate other pe…
Entrepreneurship in Small Island States and Territories
Academic research on small states often highlights the limitations that confront them. A small state is limited across the spectrum of society and economy—small territory, small population, limited
Drowning the Greek economy: Injurious speech and sovereign debt
Drawing on Judith Butler's concept of injurious speech, this article conceptualises the 'Grexit' crisis as a series of performances. More specifically, we investigate how the Greek government framed the bailout plans tabled by the Troika as a form of torture. By adopting phrases such as 'fiscal water-boarding', 'asphyxiation', and 'suicide', the Syriza government sought to narrate the harm inflicted on Greece by its creditors. Paying attention to…
Forum on Pedagogy: The Introductory Course in International Relations: Regional Variations
This forum explores how societal contexts affect how instructors teach introductory undergraduate courses in international relations (IR), global politics, and international studies. Contributors teach at universities in China, Ecuador, India, Morocco, South Africa, the United Kingdom–Scotland, and the United States. Because instructors vary the structure, content, and pedagogical approaches in their courses (and perhaps most in their introductor…
A tale of two currencies: Talking about money and (De)Securitising moves in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum
This article investigates a ‘tale of two currencies’ that played out during the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum. Taking our cue from securitisation literature, we examine what happens when currency is framed as a security issue and threat. Studying this case, however, we find that the Copenhagen School underestimate the ability of actors to perform (de)securitising moves within interactive games about financial security. In such instances, …
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