Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

by Sarah Chayes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239462
• ISBN13: 9780393239461
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

It is a book on our human history and our views of state corruption.

I really liked this book from the historical global narrative of high stakes corruption and Sarah Chayes take on what to do next. The only thing missing was how much the C.I.A. and others made off with during our Middle East illegal unconstitutional undeclared wars. The parallels to our home front today is something to be considered since this could lead to an internal revolution bypassing our Constitution and rule of law evolution.