Sarah Chayes knows Afghanistan from the inside. Living in the old capital Kandahar, dressing like a man, and befriending the heroic Chief of Police, Akrem, she gained unparalleled access to tribal leaders, warlords, jihadist insurgents and opium traders, a
Sarah Chayes knows Afghanistan from the inside. Living in the old capital Kandahar, dressing like a man, and befriending the heroic Chief of Police, A...
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 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 1990s, corruption has reached such an extent that some governments resemble glorified criminal gangs, bent solely on their own enrichment. These...
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...