The Open Government Partnership (OGP) was created in 2011 to bring governments and civil society leaders together to “promote transparent, participatory, inclusive and accountable governance,” through advancing national and local level policy reforms. Since then, the issues impacting transparency and good governance have expanded dramatically. To understand how the OGP and its members (currently 74 countries and 150 local governments) are approaching new challenges...

Depending on whom you ask, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Executive Order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is either the end of anti-corruption as we know it, or the beginning of a needed discussion about how the law is enforced. But lost in the hand-wringing and pish-poshing is perhaps the most important question for businesses: How will America’s competitors react?

Corruption is notoriously difficult to detect. As I describe in the book that I recently published...