Bribery Beyond Borders: the Story of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Nearly half a century after its passage, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act stands at a crossroads with its moral authority questioned and its global influence uncertain. Bribery Beyond Borders tells the remarkable true story of how the United States became the first nation to criminalize corporate bribery outside its boundaries. Drawing on more than a decade of archival research and detailed interviews with the journalists, lawmakers, and whistleblowers who made history, Severin Wirz plumbs the depths of the world's first global anticorruption law. Amid the ongoing reshaping of the FCPA and with America's own commitment to integrity under strain both at home and abroad, this thorough narrative reminds readers how an improbable coalition of idealists once turned scandal into statute-and how their vision still animates the global fight against corruption today.