The Dramatic Rise in Corruption Driving Extremism

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 27, 2015

Sarah Chayes, a former adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks about how corruption is a great destabilizing force in governments around the world. In Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security, she 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. 

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