Sarah Chayes
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 06:08
The early March 2016 murder of celebrated Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres should be raising alarms about the implications of the special brand of corruption that has metastasized in recent years—implications also laid bare in the recent Panama Papers revelations.
Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 06:53
Buhari has hung his presidency on overcoming two apparently intractable threats to his nation: Boko Haram and the epic corruption that saps the foundations of Nigerian government and society. Yet he has failed to make the connection between the two. Doing so would buttress both efforts, and given their arguably slim chances of success, he can hardly afford to pass up the mutual reinforcement.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 - 06:49
Sarah Chayes explains the correlation between corruption and the high rates of extremism. "No such spending is earmarked for the kleptocracy unit at the U.S. Department of Justice, nor is a mandatory class on corruption included in the syllabus for people training to enter the U.S. Foreign Service."