Abstract
Corruption, Global Security, and World Order. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2009. 497 pp., $39.95 (ISBN-13: 978-0-815-70329-7). Robert I. Rotberg's edited volume, Corruption, Global Security, and World Order , is a comprehensive assessment of global corruption that is easily accessible to most upper-level undergraduate students, yet engaging and complex enough to prove useful to the most seasoned academic. The timeliness and relevance of this volume are unquestionable (Transparency International 2010), as Rotberg himself notes in the opening paragraphs: “Corruption is a human condition and an ancient phenomenon….[and] until avarice and ambition cease to be human traits, corruption will continue to flourish” (p. 1). To empirically defend Rotberg's claim, one need only pick up the newspaper, watch the news, or browse the news Web sites to see that the issue of corruption is rampant. One of the more compelling examples of this issue occurred on the Rush Limbaugh program when a GOP House member, Rep. Darrell Issa, called President Obama “one of the most corrupt Presidents in modern times.” He clarified this statement on CNN by saying he meant the Obama administration, not President Obama (Politico 2011, Available at http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0111/Issa\_clarifies\_remark\_calling\_Obama_corrupt.html?showall, accessed August 4, 2011). This statement is striking not just in the accusation leveled at the Obama administration, but in that Representative Issa must believe that many modern Presidents were corrupt, and the Obama administration is simply the most corrupt. In general, anyone paying attention to the state of global (and domestic) politics is constantly confronted with issues of corruption. Whether this involves the distribution of funds in post-earthquake Haiti, the difficulties in fighting corruption in Afghanistan, or the plethora of other cases, it is evident that …
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