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Research objectives

MOCCA team will conduct empirical studies in Central Asia and examine (anti-) corruption laws and policies adopted (“law in books”) and how they are applied and work in real-life situations (“living in action”). Global anti-corruption laws, institutions, indicators, and discourses: explore the politics, power relations, indicators, and discourses that underlie the global anti-corruption industry,

https://www.mocca.lu.se/mocca-project/research-objectives - 2025-07-09

Book Chapters

Urinboyev, R. (2024). The Political Economy of Central Asian Law: A Law and Society Analysis. In: Urinboyev, R. (eds) The Political Economy of Central Asian Law. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55341-7_1 Mustafoev, T. (2024). The International Anticorruption Agenda, Legal Culture, and Business Environment in Uzbekistan. In: Urinbo

https://www.mocca.lu.se/book-chapters - 2025-07-09

Brief information about the project MOCCA

Corruption has become, without a doubt, a buzzword in both academic and policy debates over the last three decades. The initial view that “corruption greases the wheels of economic growth” in the newly independent states of Africa and Asia has lost its validity in the light of the current ever-growing global coalition against corruption, spearheaded by Transparency International (TI) and the World

https://www.mocca.lu.se/brief-information-about-project-mocca - 2025-07-09

Aims

MOCCA is a research and staff exchange programme intended to contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and counteracting corruption by conducting interdisciplinary research on the multilevel orders of corruption in five countries in Central Asia - Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. MOCCA project aims to: collect original empirical data on the int

https://www.mocca.lu.se/mocca-project/aims - 2025-07-09

Books

Edited Volumes, Monographs and Research Reports Urinboyev, R. (Ed.). (2024). The Political Economy of Central Asian Law: A Law and Society Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55341-7 Urinboyev, R., & Svensson, M. (2024). Law, Society and Corruption: Lessons from the Central Asian Context (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429952968 Khamzaev, D. (2024). Co

https://www.mocca.lu.se/books - 2025-07-09

Working papers

Gromov, G., Ovezmyradov, B. (2024). Differences in Research Performance Between Central Asian and Baltic States. In: Kabashkin, I., Yatskiv, I., Prentkovskis, O. (eds) Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication. RelStat 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 913. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53598-7_47 

https://www.mocca.lu.se/book-chapters/working-papers - 2025-07-09

Beneficiaries

Lund University Project coordinator University of Helsinki Beneficiary Vilnius University Beneficiary Marmara University Beneficiary İstanbul Medipol University Beneficiary Estonian Business School Beneficiary  Aarhus University Beneficiary Charles University Beneficiary

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Partners

University of Zurich Partner General Prosecutor's Office of Republic of Uzbekistan Partner Tajik State University of Commerce Partner Westminster International University in Tashkent Partner OSCE Academy Partner Anti-Corruption Business Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic Partner Tebigy Kuwwat Social Unit Enterprise Partner Eurasian Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Partner Ku

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Our Team

LUND UNIVERSITY, SWEDEN Rustamjon Urinboyev, Principal InvestigatorRustam Urinboyev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University. He is a principal investigator of the EU-funded project “Central Asian Law: Legal Cultures and Business Environments in Central Asia,” which is coordinated by Lund University. Rustamjon works at the intersection of sociology of law

https://www.mocca.lu.se/teams - 2025-07-09

Zhetysu University named after I.Zhansugurov

Zhetysu University is the largest educational and scientific centre in the Almaty region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The university provides teaching in 89 educational programs for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies, accredited by international agencies IQAA and ACQUIN. The University has 6 higher schools: the higher school of law and economics, the higher school of humanities, the h

https://www.mocca.lu.se/zhetysu-university-named-after-izhansugurov - 2025-07-09

Tebigy Kuwwat Social Unit Enterprise

Tebigy Kuwwat Social Unit Enterprise functions in Turkmenistan since 2003 in accordance with the current legislation of Turkmenistan and the State programmes on environment protection. The activities of Tebigy Kuwwat cover the following fields: providing information to State Authorities on environment protection; distribution of the experience in innovative technologies and best practice for susta

https://www.mocca.lu.se/tebigy-kuwwat-social-unit-enterprise - 2025-07-09

Lund University, Sweden

Project coordinator Lund University is the largest institution of research and higher education in Scandinavia. It has eight faculties including engineering, science, law, social sciences, economics, medicine, humanities & theology performing arts, and several research centers and specialized schools. It is a research-intensive university with over 3500 active researchers. The University has signi

https://www.mocca.lu.se/lund-university-sweden - 2025-07-09

Welcome

“MOCCA: Multilevel Orders of Corruption in Central Asia” is a 4-year research and training project funded by the European Commission’s HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01-01 - MSCA Staff Exchanges 2021 programme (project number 101085855) runs from 01/01/2023 through 31/12/2026. MOCCA is a research and staff exchange programme intended to contribute to the global and national efforts of understanding and coun

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University of Zurich, Switzerland

The University of Zurich is the largest university in Switzerland and a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). Regularly ranked among the top universities in the world, it conducts fundamental and applied research in all substantive areas, organized in seven faculties. UZH is internationally well established and connected via a large network of formalized collaborations. Co

https://www.mocca.lu.se/university-zurich-switzerland - 2025-07-09

Marmara University, Turkey

Beneficiary Marmara University is one of the oldest educational institutions in Turkey, established in 1883. Today, there are 16 faculties, 9 schools, and 11 institutes within the University. Close to 3,000 academic staff and more than 70,000 students are making contributions to Marmara University’s academic activities today, making it one of the most important institutes of higher education in Tu

https://www.mocca.lu.se/marmara-university-turkey - 2025-07-09

Charles University, Czechia

Beneficiary Charles University was founded in 1348, making it one of the oldest universities in the world. Yet it is also renowned as a modern, dynamic, cosmopolitan, and prestigious institution of higher education. It is the largest and most renowned Czech university and is also the best-rated Czech university according to international rankings. There are currently 17 faculties at the University

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İstanbul Medipol University

Beneficiary Istanbul Medipol University (IMU) is a private university established by Turkish Education Health and Research Foundation in 2009. IMU has 71 undergraduate programs in 13 faculties along with 51 Master's programs and 25 PhD programs with over 37.000 students. Academic and administrative buildings are placed in three different campuses, Kavacık Güney Campus (the one on the photo) is bei

https://www.mocca.lu.se/istanbul-medipol-university - 2025-07-09

University of Helsinki

Beneficiary The University of Helsinki is Finland's largest and oldest academic institution and an innovative centre of science and thinking. Since 1640, the University of Helsinki has contributed to the establishment of a fair and equal society that is considered one of the best in the world. The University of Helsinki is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland, since 1829, but

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Tajik State University of Commerce

The Tajik State University of Commerce, one of the leading HEIs in the Republic of Tajikistan, was founded as Trade Institute in 1987. Today TSUC, with more than 3 thousand students and more than 200 teaching staff, is an important educational institution in the market of educational services of the Republic of Tajikistan. The Tajik State University of Commerce was the first university in the Repu

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OSCE Academy

The OSCE Academy in Bishkek is designed to promote and enhance the principles and values of the OSCE in Central Asia. The OSCE Academy came out as a product of a partnership between the OSCE and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. In 2002 the two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding that formalized the creation of the Academy as a regional centre of postgraduate education and a forum for

https://www.mocca.lu.se/osce-academy - 2025-07-09