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THIEVES OF STATE
Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
A former Special Advisor to Admiral Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, and award-winning NPR correspondent explains how government’s oldest problem is its greatest destabilizing force.
Thieves of State argues that corruption is not just a nuisance; it is a major source of geopolitical turmoil.
Many governments have grown so corrupt as to resemble glorified criminal gangs. And this development is provoking extreme reactions ranging from revolution to militant puritanical religion.
Through intensive first-hand reporting, Chayes explores this link throughout our world: Afghans returning to the Taliban, Egyptians overthrowing the Mubarak government—but also redesigning Al Qaeda—and Nigerians embracing both evangelical Christianity and Islamist terrorist groups like Boko Haram. The pattern, moreover, pervades history. 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 that connects the Protestant Reformation to the Arab Spring, Chayes asserts that we cannot afford not to attack corruption, for it is a cause, and not a result, of global instability.
Sarah Chayes was a journalist, historian, and public intellectual before she went "inside the wire". She has crossed over to becoming a direct participant in the military as a civilian advisor at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
She was special assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and contributed to Cabinet-level strategic decision-making on US policy in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Arab Spring. Chayes focused on governance and corruption. Almost the only American to do so, she lived on the economy among ordinary Afghans in the heart of the growing insurgency.
Sarah is the recipient of the inaugural Ruth Adams Award for writing on strategic issues, the Oprah Winfrey Chutzpah Award. Previously, she was a Paris-based correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), covering the war in Serbia and Bosnia, as well as conflicts in Israel/Palestine, Algeria, and Lebanon.
She was featured in the full-length Sundance/Frontline world documentary, Life After War/A House for Haji Baba, which was aired on the Sundance channel in 2003.
She founded Arghand [http://www.arghand.org/] – a manufacturing cooperative where men and women fashion high-end skin-care products for export, using local fruits, nuts, and botanicals.
Chayes graduated from Phillips Academy in 1980 and Harvard University in 1984, earning the Radcliffe College History Prize.
She is now a contributing writer for the LA Times and has published articles in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. She has appeared on “NOW with Bill Moyers,” ABC News (Person of the Week), CNN, the Rachel Maddow Show, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, Reliable Sources, Anderson Cooper 360, NPR’s Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Chayes lectures widely.
Many governments have grown so corrupt as to resemble glorified criminal gangs. And this development is provoking extreme reactions ranging from revolution to militant puritanical religion.
Through intensive first-hand reporting, Chayes explores this link throughout our world: Afghans returning to the Taliban, Egyptians overthrowing the Mubarak government—but also redesigning Al Qaeda—and Nigerians embracing both evangelical Christianity and Islamist terrorist groups like Boko Haram. The pattern, moreover, pervades history. 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 that connects the Protestant Reformation to the Arab Spring, Chayes asserts that we cannot afford not to attack corruption, for it is a cause, and not a result, of global instability.
Sarah Chayes was a journalist, historian, and public intellectual before she went "inside the wire". She has crossed over to becoming a direct participant in the military as a civilian advisor at the highest levels of the U.S. government.
She was special assistant to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and contributed to Cabinet-level strategic decision-making on US policy in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Arab Spring. Chayes focused on governance and corruption. Almost the only American to do so, she lived on the economy among ordinary Afghans in the heart of the growing insurgency.
Sarah is the recipient of the inaugural Ruth Adams Award for writing on strategic issues, the Oprah Winfrey Chutzpah Award. Previously, she was a Paris-based correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), covering the war in Serbia and Bosnia, as well as conflicts in Israel/Palestine, Algeria, and Lebanon.
She was featured in the full-length Sundance/Frontline world documentary, Life After War/A House for Haji Baba, which was aired on the Sundance channel in 2003.
She founded Arghand [http://www.arghand.org/] – a manufacturing cooperative where men and women fashion high-end skin-care products for export, using local fruits, nuts, and botanicals.
Chayes graduated from Phillips Academy in 1980 and Harvard University in 1984, earning the Radcliffe College History Prize.
She is now a contributing writer for the LA Times and has published articles in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. She has appeared on “NOW with Bill Moyers,” ABC News (Person of the Week), CNN, the Rachel Maddow Show, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, Reliable Sources, Anderson Cooper 360, NPR’s Fresh Air, Talk of the Nation, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. Chayes lectures widely.
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Published 2015-01-19 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA) |
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Published 2015-01-19 by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. - New York (USA) |