Systemic corruption has an unrecognized bearing on international security. Policymakers and private companies often pay insufficient attention to corruption when deciding what foreign and defense policies to pursue or where to invest. Greater understanding of the nature of acute corruption and its impact on global security would contribute to a better assessment of costs and benefits and therefore to improved policy and practice.
Security Implications of Severe Corruption
- Acute corruption should be understood not as a failure or distortion of government but as a functioning system in which ruling networks use selected levers of power to capture specific revenue streams. This effort often overshadows activities connected with running a state.
- Such systematic corruption evokes indignation in populations, making it a factor in social unrest and insurgency…
Corruption: The Unrecognized Threat to International Security – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
June 26, 2014
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17 aid workers abducted in Sudans Darfur region
June 24, 2014
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17 aid workers abducted in Sudans Darfur region.
Seventeen aid workers have been abducted in the Sudanese troubled Darfur region, sources said.
Irish NGO GOAL and local SAK reported that the abduction took place on Thursday.
They said three GOAL employees and 14 members of the Sudanese SAK were abducted in Kutum, North Darfur.
The sources said the three Goal employees included the country director.
The SAK members included the head of the Kutum branch and an engineer.
“Militiamen in three Land Cruisers stopped the GOAL country director and two staff members who were on their way to Kutum airport. They pulled them from their vehicle at gunpoint and took them to an unknown destination,” the sources, who asked not to be named because they are not authorised to talk to the media, told the Africa Review.
“At about the same time, gunmen in Land Cruisers abducted 14 employees of the Sudanese SAK organisation, in the Um Lyon in Kutum locality,” they added…
Michael Moore – So today, Mosul fell. Mosul is the second…
June 11, 2014
International Security International Security, Iraq, ISIS, peter singhateh, Peter Singhatey 1 Comment
Michael Moore – So today, Mosul fell. Mosul is the second….
So today, Mosul fell. Mosul is the second largest city in Iraq. The Iraqi government we “installed”, has now lost Fallujah, Ramadi, Mosul and other large swaths of the country we invaded at the cost of thousands of American lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and a couple trillion dollars. (What could your school district do with a trillion dollars?).
One more maddening day in this 11-year illegal, immoral, greedy and stupid war. Today in Mosul, that Iraqi Army YOU pay for, freaked out, threw down their guns, and literally RAN away. I have friends and acquaintances who lost sons in all three of those cities. I can only imagine what they’re feeling tonight. FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT! I am so sorry we couldn’t do anything to stop this when it started. A few million of us tried. Last week, Richard Clarke, Bush’s former head of counter-terrorism, said he now believes that his fellow members of the Bush administration committed “war crimes.” …
Facts about Syria
August 28, 2013
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Syria Facts: 11 Things to Know About the Country We\\’re Going to Bomb
via Syria Facts: 11 Things to Know About the Country We\\\’re Going to Bomb.
On August 27, U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that, should President Obama give the order, the U.S. military is ready to launch attacks on Syria. The U.S. is responding to the Assad regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons outside of Damascus, which killed hundreds. Below are 11 facts about Syria to put the country’s geopolitical situation in context for Americans…
Obama lands in Africa amid Mandela gloom – The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia
June 28, 2013
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Obama lands in Africa amid Mandela gloom – The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia
via Obama lands in Africa amid Mandela gloom – The Point Newspaper, Banjul, The Gambia.
US President Barack Obama landed in Senegal on Wednesday to begin a long awaited first major tour of Africa with the world preparing to bid a reluctant farewell to Nelson Mandela.
The possibility that the critically ill anti-apartheid icon could fade away within days has sparked uncertainty about Obama’s itinerary.
Plans to visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania over the next week could be complicated, shifting the focus of a trip meant to ease the disappointment of Africans who saw expectations for Obama’s presidency fall short…
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