Thieves of State - Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
A Politics, Economics, Africa book. The mere fact of holding elections, Americans already knew, was not sufficient...
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...
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In Afghanistan, faced with such moral and material depravity, a brutal and tenacious insurgency was serving up its idea of an antidote: a narrow reading of religious devotion. Many Afghans were swayed by the argument that government integrity could be achieved only through religious rectitude. Some appreciated the outlet that militancy provided for their anger. Still others just laid low, unwilling to take risks on behalf of a government that treated them almost as badly as the Taliban did. And it was all U.S. troops could do to keep that insurgency... But what if the Afghan government wasnt really trying to govern? What if it was focused on another objective altogether? What if corruption was central to that objective and therefore to the governments mode of operation? Perhaps GIRoA could best be understood not as a government at all but as a vertically integrated criminal organizationor a few such loosely structured organizations, allies but rivals, coexisting uneasilywhose core activity was not in fact exercising the functions of a state but rather extracting resources for personal gain. Sarah... The mere fact of holding elections, Americans already knew, was not sufficient to guarantee peoples rights. That truththat an election per se is less important than the architecture within which it takes placeplayed out in the painful struggles that took place in Arab Spring countries after their revolutions. Sarah Chayes, Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
This is a fantastic book, not only for the insight it provides into the effects of corruption on security in the Third World, but also because it provides a glimpse of what our future holds here in the United States if we don't restore the rule of law. Could it be that our Congress gets so little done in a legislative session; routinely... Excellent well documented book which addresses the link between state corruption as the primary driver of insurgencies. This is very evident in Afghanistan where the average citizen is subjected to both the violence of the state and the endless bribes and payoffs that are extracted, who so abused finds that even the oppressiveness of... Really a great read. It focused more on foreign governments as opposed to the U.S. government, which allows the reader to draw his own conclusions about the influence of corruption on our own soil. The author weaves historical accounts, ancient texts, and contemporary quotations into a penetrating look at the role corruption has played...
