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Blood oil, tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world, Leif Wenar

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Blood oil, tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world, Leif Wenar

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Blood oil

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

907446143

Responsibility statement

Leif Wenar

Sub title

tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world

Summary

"Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world. Petrocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend resource money on weapons and oppression; militants in Iraq and in the Congo spend resource money on radicalization and ammunition. Resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists present endless crises to the West-and the source of their resource power is ultimately ordinary consumers, doing their everyday shopping at the gas station and the mall. In this sweeping new book, one of today's leading political philosophers, Leif Wenar, goes behind the headlines in search of the hidden global rule that thwarts democracy and development-and that puts shoppers into business with some of today's most dangerous men. Wenar discovers a rule that once licensed the slave trade and apartheid and genocide, a rule whose abolition has marked some of humanity's greatest triumphs-yet a rule that still enflames tyranny and war and terrorism through today's multi-trillion dollar resource trade. Blood Oil shows how the West can now lead a peaceful revolution by ending its dependence on authoritarian oil, and by getting consumers out of business with the men of blood. The book describes practical strategies for upgrading world trade: for choosing new rules that will make us more secure at home, more trusted abroad, and better able to solve pressing global problems like climate change. Blood Oil shows citizens, consumers and leaders how we can act together today to create a more united human future." -- Publisher's website

Table Of Contents

Part I. Them vs. Them -- Chapter 1. Addicted to Money -- Chapter 2. Power: What Big Men Want --Chapter 3. Coercion, Corruption... -- Chapter 4. ...Then Maybe Blood -- Part II. Them vs. Us vs. Us --Chapter 5. Might Makes Right -- Chapter 6. Curses on Us: Petrocrats, Terrorists and Conflict -- Chapter 7. How Might Makes Right -- Chapter 8. Gripping Dirty Hands -- Part III. The People's Rights -- Chapter 9. Counter-Power -- Chapter 10. The Determination of Peoples -- Chapter 11. Popular Resource Sovereignty -- Chapter 12. The State of the Law -- Chapter 13. Popular Philosophy -- Chapter 14. Our Corruption: Why Leaders Must Lie -- Part IV. Clean Trade -- Chapter 15. Principles for Action -- Chapter 16. Clean Trade Policy I: Protecting Property -- Chapter 17. Clean Trade Policy II: Supporting Accountability -- Part V. All United -- Chapter 18. The Future -- Epilogue. The Philosophy of Unity

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