Thieves of state
Subtitle: why corruption threatens global security
By: Sarah Chayes
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780393352283
Subjects: International relations; Corruption; National security
Description: "Thieves of State identifies the unexpected force behind some of our world's most dramatic security challenges: corruption. Chayes, a former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explains how the pursuit of personal enrichment by Mafia-like governments provokes extreme reactions that are playing out in headlines every day: militant extremism from the Islamic State to the Taliban to Boko Haram, and revolutions from eth Arab Spring to Ukraine's Maidan."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-244) and index.

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Table of contents: title: Chapter one.; title: "If I see somebody planting an IED ..." -- Afghanistan, 2009 -- Chapter two.; title: "Lord King, how I wish that you were wise" -- Mirrors for Princes, ca. 700-1516 -- Chapter three.; title: Hearing the people's complaints -- Kandahar to Kabul, 2001-2009 -- Chapter four.; title: Nonkinetic targeting -- Kabul, 2009 -- Chapter five.; title: Vertically integrated criminal syndicates -- Kabul, Garmisch, 2009-2010 -- Chapter six.; title: Revolt against kleptocracy -- The Arab Spring: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 2011 -- Chapter seven.; title: Variation 1: The (overlooked) military-kleptocratic complex -- Egypt, ca. 2010 -- Chapter eight.; title: Variation 2: the bureaucratic kleptocracy -- Tunisia, ca. 2010 -- Chapter nine.; title: Variation 3: the post-Soviet kleptocratic autocracy -- Uzbekistan, ca. 2013 -- Chapter ten.; title: Variation 4: the resource kleptocracy -- Nigeria, ca. 2014 -- Chapter eleven.; title: Up a level -- Afghanistan and Washington, June 2010-January 2011 -- Chapter twelve.; title: Forging the appeal on Earth -- The Netherlands, England, America, ca. 1560-1787 -- Chapter thirteen.; title: Violent extremists -- -- Chapter fourteen.; title: Remedies.