| THIEVES OF STATE Why Corruption Threatens Global Security Sarah Chayes New York: W. W. Norton & Co., March 2016 |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-393-35228-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-393-35228-5 | 262pp. | SC/GSI | $16.95 | |
| CHAPTER ONE | |
| "If I See Somebody Planting an IED..." | |
| Afghanistan, 2009 | 3 |
| CHAPTER TWO | |
| "Lord King, How I Wish That You Were Wise" | |
| Mirrors for Princes, ca. 700-1516 | 8 |
| CHAPTER THREE | |
| Hearing the People's Complaints | |
| Kandahar to Kabul, 2001-2009 | 20 |
| CHAPTER FOUR | |
| Nonkinetic Targeting | |
| Kabul, 2009 | 39 |
| CHAPTER FIVE | |
| Vertically Integrated Criminal Syndicates | |
| Kabul, Garmisch, 2009-2010 | 58 |
| CHAPTER SIX | |
| Revolt Against Kleptocracy | |
| The Arab Spring: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 2011 | 67 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN | |
| Variation 1: The (Overlooked) Military-Kleptocratic Complex | |
| Egypt, ca. 2010 | 78 |
| CHAPTER EIGHT | |
| Variation 2: The Bureaucratic Kleptocracy | |
| Tunisia, ca. 2010 | 91 |
| CHAPTER NINE | |
| Variation 3: The Post-Soviet Kleptocratic Autocracy | |
| Uzbekistan, ca. 2013 | 101 |
| CHAPTER TEN | |
| Variation 4: The Resource Kleptocracy | |
| Nigeria, ca. 2014 | 118 |
| CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
| Up a Level | |
| Afghanistan and Washington, June 2010-January 2011 | 135 |
| CHAPTER TWELVE | |
| Forging an Appeal on Earth | |
| The Netherlands, England, America, ca. 1560-1787 | 156 |
| CHAPTER THIRTEEN | |
| Violent Extremists | |
| 172 | |
| CHAPTER FOURTEEN | |
| Remedies | |
| 184 | |
| EPILOGUE | |
| Self-Reflection | |
| 205 | |
| Appendix | 212 |
| Acknowledgments | 219 |
| Notes | 221 |
| Index | 245 |
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