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Sarah Chayes on Thieves Of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security

Corruption acts as a thread tying recent frightening international security crises together.

by Sarah Chayes
published by
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
 on January 26, 2015

Source: WAMC Northeast Public Radio

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 - in her book, Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security.

This interview was originally broadcast on WAMC Northeast Public Radio.

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