The world is blowing up. Every day a new blaze seems to ignite: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria; the East-West standoff in Ukraine; abducted schoolgirls in northern Nigeria. Is there some thread tying these frightening international security crises together? In a riveting account that weaves history with fast-moving reportage and insider accounts from the Afghanistan war, Sarah Chayes identifies the unexpected link: corruption.
Since the late 1990s, corruption has reached such an extent that some governments resemble glorified criminal gangs, bent solely on their own enrichment. These kleptocrats drive indignant populations to extremes—ranging from revolution to militant puritanical religion. Chayes plunges readers into some of the most venal environments on earth and examines what emerges: Afghans returning to the Taliban, Egyptians overthrowing the Mubarak government (but also redesigning Al-Qaeda), and Nigerians embracing both radical evangelical Christianity and the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. In many such places, rigid moral codes are put forth as an antidote to the collapse of public integrity.
The pattern, moreover, pervades history. Through deep archival research, Chayes reveals that canonical political thinkers such as John Locke and Machiavelli, as well as the great medieval Islamic statesman Nizam al-Mulk, all named corruption as a threat to the realm. In a thrilling argument connecting the Protestant Reformation to the Arab Spring, Thieves of State presents a powerful new way to understand global extremism. And it makes a compelling case that we must confront corruption, for it is a cause—not a result—of global instability.
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This crucial pillar, a strategy against corruption, that has been left out of the design for foreign forays of business, charity and stability is finally revealed comprehensively and viscerally to the financiers as to the "WHY" of our failures abroad. Historically documented and daily demonstrated, corruption is the corrosion of civilization and the demise of every morality we personally aspire to live under. This book should be a must read for all US trained Officers, Agents and NGO employees. Hopefully this will prove the catalyst for much needed doctrinal change.
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Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security Info
- Hardcover: 272 pages ( Download PDF :
) - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (January 19, 2015)
- Language: English
- Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.1 x 9.6 inches
- Author: Sarah Chayes
- ISBN-10: 0393239462
- ISBN-13: 978-0393239461
About the Author
An award-winning former NPR correspondent, foreign policy expert, and entrepreneur with ten years' experience in Afghanistan, Sarah Chayes is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment and the author of The Punishment of Virtue. She lives in Washington, DC
Sarah covered the fall of the Taliban for National Public Radio (NPR), then left journalism to remain in Kandahar in order to contribute to the reconstruction of the country, living there almost continuously since December 2001.
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