Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes
[PDF file]: […] have similar characteristics to the Karzai regime in the sense that they are little more than ‘criminal organizations’, despoiling their own countries. She discusses Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Uzbekistan and Nigeria as variations on this theme. They are all ‘kleptocracies’ facing Islamist challenges. The regime the US put in place in Iraq is another […]