Table of Contents
Chapter 1 "If I See Somebody Planting an IED …" Afghanistan, 2009 3
Chapter 2 "Lord King, How I Wish That You Were Wise" Mirrors for Princes, ca. 700-1516 8
Chapter 3 Hearing the People's Complaints: Kandahar to Kabul, 2001-2009 20
Chapter 4 Nonkinetic Targeting Kabul, 2009 39
Chapter 5 Vertically Integrated Criminal Syndicates Kabul, Garmisch, 2009-2010 58
Chapter 6 Revolt Against Kleptocracy The Arab Spring: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, 2011 67
Chapter 7 Variation I: The (Overlooked) Military-Kleptocratic Complex Egypt, ca. 2010 78
Chapter 8 Variation 2: The Bureaucratic Kleptocracy Tunisia, ca. 2010 91
Chapter 9 Variation 3: The Post-Soviet Kleptocratic Autocracy Uzbekistan, ca. 2013 101
Chapter 10 Variation 4: The Resource Kleptocracy Nigeria, ca. 2014 118
Chapter 11 Up a Level Afghanistan and Washington, June 2010-January 2011 135
Chapter 12 Forging an Appeal on Earth: The Netherlands, England, America, ca. 1560-1787 156
Chapter 13 Violent Extremists 172
Chapter 14 Remedies 184
Epilogue: Self-Reflection 205
Appendix 212
Acknowledgments 219
Notes 221
Index 245