Thieves of state : why corruption threatens global security / Sarah Chayes.
Chayes, Sarah, 1962- author.
2015
JF1081 .C43 2015 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title Thieves of state : why corruption threatens global security / Sarah Chayes.
Author Chayes, Sarah, 1962- author.
ISBN 9780393239461 hardcover
0393239462 hardcover
Published New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number JF1081 .C43 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.1/323
Summary A former advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff explains the common role of corruption in today's international uprisings, tracing corruption since the 1990s while arguing that corrupt governments have been largely responsible for extreme acts of rebellion.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
"If I see somebody planting an IED..." : Afghanistan, 2009
"Lord King, how I wish that you were wise" : mirrors for princes, ca. 700-1516
Hearing the people's complaints : Kandahar to Kabul, 2001-2009
Nonkinetic targeting : Kabul, 2009
Vertically integrated criminal syndicates : Kabul, Garmisch, 2009-2010
Revolt against kleptocracy : the Arab spring : Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 2011
Variation 1: the (overlooked) military-kleptocratic complex : Egypt, ca. 2010
Variation 2: the bureaucratic kleptocracy : Tunisia, ca. 2010
Variation 3: the post-Soviet kleptocratic autocracy : Uzbekistan, ca. 2013
Variation 4: the resource kleptocracy : Nigeria, ca. 2014
Up a level : Afghanistan and Washington, June 2010-January 2011
Forging an appeal on Earth : The Netherlands, England, America, ca. 1560-1787
Violent extremists
Remedies
Self-reflection
Appendix.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export