Professor Christian Leuprecht

Hon. B.A., D.É.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D. (Queen's)

Christian Leuprecht

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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.

Recent Books

Military Operations in Response to Domestic Emergencies and Global Pandemics
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Recent Articles

Linguistic Models of Abusive Language
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Recent Chapters

Terror on the Blockchain: The Emergent Crypto-Crime-Terror Nexus
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Podcasts and Webinars

Cullen Commission Recommendations to Strengthen the BC Government's Anti-Corruption Capabilities
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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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Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
School of Policy Studies
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Queen's University
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