Sarah Chayes
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Want to limit migration? We can start by supporting democracy in Honduras.
Washington should make aid contingent on a recount of the recent presidential election. → Read More
Want to Limit Migration? We Can Start by Supporting Democracy in Honduras.
The United States should join Honduran demonstrators in opposing President Hernandez’s attempt to rig the election. → Read More
Trump Flouting Norms Risks Venal Turn in United States
Sarah Chayes, author of “Thieves of State,” spoke with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump’s business with corrupt foreign governments risks spreading corruption to the United States. → Read More
Can Legal Aid Change Power Dynamics? Experiences from India, Sierra Leone, and Elsewhere
Access to justice is a key governance concern in developed and developing countries alike. → Read More
Do Trump’s Foreign Business Entanglements Threaten Our Democracy?
The Trump Organization’s continued business dealings with foreign governments, both at home and abroad, challenge the core principles of U.S. democracy. → Read More
Kleptocracy in America
Corruption is not so much a problem for governments as it is an approach to government, one chosen by far too many rulers today. → Read More
Oil Corruption: How the United States Can Counteract a Curse
The oil industry has been entangled in serious corruption controversies. In response, the U.S. government has shown leadership over the past decade in helping bring more transparency to the sector. → Read More
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders on Threats to Democracy
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will discuss the rise of authoritarianism and emerging threats to democracy in the United States and around the world. → Read More
A hidden cost of corruption: environmental devastation
Traveling on the Patuca River in Honduras, you can see kleptocracy’s effects. → Read More
A Hidden Cost of Corruption: Environmental Devastation
Honduras offers an example of how corruption helps fuel environmental devastation. → Read More
When Corruption is the Operating System: The Case of Honduras
In some five dozen countries worldwide, corruption can no longer be understood as merely the iniquitous doings of individuals. Rather, it is the operating system of sophisticated networks that cross sectoral and national boundaries in their drive to maximize returns for their members. → Read More
Articles by Sarah Chayes
Sarah Chayes is a senior fellow in the democracy and rule of law program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her book "Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security" won the 2016 LA Times Book Prize. → Read More
Trump and the Path Toward Kleptocracy
How transnational political-criminal networks, often run by families, govern in their own economic interests. → Read More
Trump and the Path Toward Kleptocracy
The Trump administration, in personnel and practice, resembles a kleptocratic network such as those seen in many developing countries and post-Soviet states. Simply stated, this government’s objective is making money. → Read More
Corruption: The Operating System
Corruption animates sophisticated and successful transnational networks—resulting in violence, environmental devastation, and popular indignation. → Read More
Rigging the System
The Trump administration’s disregard for domestic institutions resembles international patterns of how autocrats respond to judicial challenges. → Read More
It Was a Corruption Election. It’s Time We Realized It.
In a country full of sophisticated lawyers and lobbyists and rationalizers, it is now urgent to ask whether Americans still understand what corruption is. To say it’s what is proscribed by law is to fall into a logical sinkhole. → Read More
Fight Corruption to End Conflict
Fighting religious extremism and ethnic rivalries requires addressing corruption. → Read More
Confronting Corruption
Confronting corruption at a deep level demands a significant cultural shift away from money and income as a primary virtue, and an intellectual movement away from treating corruption as a victimless crime. → Read More
Bankrupting Kleptocracy: Financial Tools to Counter Atrocities in Africa’s Deadliest War Zones
One under-recognized factor is fueling many of the world’s most violent crises—not bitter identity rifts or imperial delusions, but the simple drive to amass lucre. → Read More