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The Dramatic Rise in Corruption Driving Extremism

Systemic corruption is a great destabilizing force in governments around the world.

by Sarah Chayes
published by
WNYC Leonard Lopate Show
 on January 28, 2015

Source: WNYC Leonard Lopate Show

In Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, Sarah Chayes argues that since the late 1990s, corruption has reached such an extent that some governments resemble glorified criminal gangs, bent solely on their own enrichment.

This interview was originally broadcast on WNYC's Leonard Lopate Show.

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