Michaelene Cox and her contributors cast a broad net, offering a book that is policy-relevant and theoretically-conscious. The volume offers a multifaceted, multi-layered examination of relationships among questionable or illegal political and economic activity, inadequate governmental capacity, forceful contention, and illegitimate domination. The chapters invite the reader to assess the adequacy of some national and international policies framed to deal with such problems as well as to consider more carefully the nature of statehood. This collection should find a broad audience.

Barbara A. Chotiner, University of Alabama

This is a very comprehensive book that links corruption and conflict. It sheds new light on a topic which many have pointed to as important, but few have investigated empirically or systematically. This book, which has contributions from a good mix of junior and senior scholars, provides new insights from a variety of different points of view, and contributes greatly to our understanding of corruption and political conflict in the world.

John Ishiyama, University of North Texas