Professor Christian Leuprecht
Hon. B.A., D.É.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Queen's)
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Dr. Christian Leuprecht is Class of 1965 Distinguished Professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Military Journal. Recent books include Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press), Security. Cooperation. Governance. The Canada-United States Open Border Paradox (University of Michigan Press, 2023), Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons (Routledge, 2023), Polar Cousins: Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures (University of Calgary Press, 2022), and Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft (Oxford University Press, 2021). A senior fellow at the Macdonald Laurier Institute, director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations in the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University and is an Adjunct Research Professor in the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University. A former Bicentennial Professor in Canadian Studies at Yale University (2009-2010), Matthew Flinders Fellow at Flinders University of South Australia (2017-2018), Eisenhower Fellow at the NATO Defence College (2019), and Fulbright Research Chair in Canada–US Relations at John Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies (2020), he is an elected member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada, recipient of the Cowan Prize for Excellence in Research at the Royal Military College of Canada and past president of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee 01: Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. He holds Ontario provincial appointments as chair of the Ontario Research Fund Advisory Board and to the Kingston Police Services Board; as well as to the scientific advisory board of the World Customs Organization, the UK’s Polar Institute and the OneSocietyNetwork. He is series editor of the long-standing Canada: State of the Federation series, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press and section co-editor of Oxford University Press Intersections: Borders.
Expertise
Arctic Security, Borders, Canada-US relations: Continental Security and NORAD, Cyber Security, Defence, Federalism, Financial and Economic Crime, Intelligence and National Security, NATO and Transatlantic Relations, Policing and Police Governance, Political Demography, Terrorism, Radicalization and Extremism, Transnational Organized Crime.
Recent Books
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Podcasts and Webinars
Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada
Ranked #22 among the Hill-Times 100 Best Books of 2023
Financial crime in Canada remains a mystery: omnipresent, but we know little about its operation. Transactions are cloaked with apparent legality, which makes tracking criminal activity through economic or financial statistics a complex undertaking. Dirty Money reveals how globalization and technology have spun an extensive web of clandestine processes that disguises how financial criminals operate, the channels they use, and how they suborn banks and institutions. In the process, the extent of financial crime in Canada and its corrosive effects on communities, democratic institutions, and prosperity becomes apparent.
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Opinion: Exposing the owners of shell companies is a start. But Canada must do more to fight financial crime by Rita Trichur, Senior Business Columnist
‘Dirty Money’: New book explores how financial crime is corroding Canada by Andrew McIntosh
Winner of Outstanding Paper from the Emerald Awards Literati 2024
Virtual money laundering: policy implications of the proliferation in the illicit use of cryptocurrency
Purpose: This study aims to explain how cryptocurrency is leveraged for illicit purposes across the global financial system. Specifically, it establishes how cryptocurrency has been changing the nature of transnational and domestic money laundering (ML). It then assesses the effectiveness of conventional anti-money laundering (AML) policy and legislation against the proliferation of crypto laundering, using Canada as a critical case study.
Listen Now: New Fashioned Laundry: Cryptocurrency and the proceeds of crime
"Does Cryptocurrency change how we should understand money laundering? Dr. Christian Leuprecht, Caitlyn Jenkins and Rhianna Hamilton join us to discuss their recent paper “Virtual money laundering: policy implications of the proliferation in the illicit use of cryptocurrency" Vanessa Henri answers the question can lawyers say whatever they want?"
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Royal Military College of Canada
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Contact By Email
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
School of Policy Studies
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Queen's University
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christian.leuprecht@queensu.ca