Leslie Holmes

Leslie Holmes is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne and a recurrent visiting professor at the Graduate School of Social Research in Warsaw, the University of Bologna and the People's University in Beijing. He has also taught at the International Anti-Corruption Academy in Vienna and at intensive workshops on corruption in Belgrade and Sofia. His principal research specialisations are corruption, communism and post-communism. He has authored or edited 14 books and numerous articles and book chapters. His publications include Rotten States? (Duke UP, 2006), Communism (OUP, 2009), Post-Communist Democratization (co-authored with John Dryzek, CUP, 2002) and two edited collections, Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption (Elgar, 2007) and Trafficking and Human Rights (Elgar, 2010). He has been a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia since 1995.