Contact Information
Champaign, IL 61820
Research Areas
Biography
Dr. Andrew Guth is the Academic Coordinator for the Center of Global Studies (CGS), where he helped establish, lectures in, and is administrator of the Master of Science (MS) in Global Studies program. Prior to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Guth worked in China for ten years, the Philippines for another three years, and traveled throughout Southeast Asia off and on for twenty years. He was a consultant for the United Nations, OECD, Transparency International, and others; worked at the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) in Arlington, VA; and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines.
Research Interests
My research focuses on anticorruption and how it ties into and affects human rights, community empowerment, and global security. I am currently exploring the continued rise of China and the BRICS as the global counterweight to Western democracy and its economic, political, and social philosophies.
Education
Public Policy, PhD, George Mason University
Master of Public Policy (MPP), George Mason University
links
selected publications
Guth, A. (2024). The Philippines: A social structure of corruption. Crime, Law and Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-024-10140-2
Kangaspunta, K., & Guth, A. (2016). Chapter 2 Trafficking in persons: Trends and patterns. In Illicit Trade: Converging Criminal Networks (pp. 35–54). Paris, France: OECD. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/governance/charting-illicit-trade_9789264…
Guth, A., Anderson, R., Kinnard, K., Tran, H. (2014). Proper Methodology and Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Slavery Data: An Examination of the Global Slavery Index. Social Inclusion, 2(4), 14-22.
Guth, A. (2010). Human Trafficking in the Philippines: the need for an effective anticorruption program. Trends in Organized Crime, 13(2-3), 147-166.