Sarah Chayes

Sarah Chayes is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. A former reporter, she lived in Afghanistan for almost a decade from 2001 and served as special adviser to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. She is an expert in South Asia policy, kleptocracy and anti-corruption, and civil-military relations. Much of her research and writing focuses on correlations between acute public corruption and the rise of militant extremism. She is the author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security (W. W. Norton & Company, 2015) and The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban (Penguin Press, 2006). She was recently a lecturer in IACA’s 2015 – 2017 Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (MACS) programme.

Corruption and Security

Interviews, Issue X, Mar 2016 / By Sarah Chayes

“Fighting dragons is what heroes do“ In her recent book Thieves of State, Sarah Chayes highlighted the largely overlooked nexus between corruption and acute security crises. She elaborated on this theme as the keynote speaker at a side-event during IACA’s fourth Assembly of Parties (AoP) in Vienna in December 2015. In a separate interview with …

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