Corruption poses a threat to international security and stability according to a presentation given by Karolina MacLachlan and Emma Kerr of Transparency International UK-Defence and Security Programme. Corruption can lead to state failure and negatively impacts security as evidenced by the Iraqi president's admission that corruption in the military resulted in far fewer actual soldiers than reported. An analysis by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace also linked corruption and state failure while Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index further illustrates the scope of the problem.

1. Corruption: a threat to international
security and stability
Karolina MacLachlan and Emma Kerr
Transparency International UK-Defence and Security
Programme
RUSI Global Trends Conference
London, 9 October 2014

2. Corruption and state failure
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2014

3. Corruption and security
‘I have to admit, corruption [has] existed… Some
brigades of the army, the numbers should be
many thousands. But in reality, bbeeccaauussee ooff
corruption, the real number is 1,000 or 1,500.
And the rest are fictitious names just to get
salaries.’
Iraqi President Fuad Massum, Council on Foreign Relations, September 2014

5. Corruption Perception Index (CPI)
2013