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I argue that positivism has had baleful practical consequences for research in the discipline and debates over how that research is assessed. My aim is to identify those consequences as a first step toward figuring out how we might rectify them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization has made it difficult and almost impossible to effectively address issues within the limits of State/Country laws. One such issue is that of money laundering and terrorist financing. Since this issue poses a threat to the econimc well-being of countries, there is a necessity to cooperate and establish laws that all states would have to implement and yet states have been unwilling to compromise their sovereignity. This paper seeks to understand this dilemma between security and sovereignity by examing the regime of rules and laws that have been established by organizations like the Financial Action Task Force in dealing with money laundering and terrorist financing issue. In doing so this paper examines Robert Keohane’s concept of “governance dilemma” and Slaughter’s theory of “government networks” to understand international efforts to deal with money laundering and terrorist financing. Keohane states that although a world governed by international institutions is beneficial, it posses a threat to our liberty. Slaughter offers a solution to this dilemma in her theory of “government networks” will be formed to address issues at a global scale. Are these government netwroks afeature of the ML and TF regime? ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]