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Sovereign Wealth Recovery in failing or corrupt states should be incorporated in planning by political elites and force commanders ahead of any future military or other intervention to expedite a return to stability, according to a new research from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

Corruption, Cohesion and New Thinking: A Doctrinal Imperative for Sovereign Wealth Recovery Capabilities, written by John Louth and Lauren Twort, explores the hypothesis that endemic state-level corruption and the failure to recover purloined sovereign wealth to fragile or recovering states represents a national security issue to countries such as the United Kingdom.

The paper highlights that UK defence and national security doctrine does not address the subject of sovereign wealth recovery, despite recent UK military intervention in states where 'significant sovereign assets have been stolen by corrupt leaders'.

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