Blood Oil

Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvLeif Wenar,King's College-London) Wenar, Leif (Professor of Politics and Chair of Philosophy, Professor of Politics and Chair of Philosophy

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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 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-06-22
Mått157 x 231 x 33 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor552
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190659967

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IntroductionNeed to Know Basis: The Facts about Resources, the Oil Companies and the Oil CountriesSummary of the BookPart I. Them vs. ThemChapter 1. Addicted to MoneyChapter 2. Power: What Big Men WantChapter 3. Coercion, Corruption...Chapter 4. ...Then Maybe BloodPart II. Them vs. Us vs. UsChapter 5. Might Makes RightChapter 6. Curses on Us: Petrocrats, Terrorists and ConflictChapter 7. How Might Makes RightChapter 8. Gripping Dirty HandsPart III. The People's RightsChapter 9. Counter-PowerChapter 10. The Determination of PeoplesChapter 11. Popular Resource SovereigntyChapter 12. The State of the LawChapter 13. Popular PhilosophyChapter 14. Our Corruption: Why Leaders Must LiePart IV. Clean TradeChapter 15. Principles for ActionChapter 16. Clean Trade Policy I: Protecting PropertyChapter 17. Clean Trade Policy II: Supporting AccountabilityPart V. All UnitedChapter 18. The Future Epilogue. The Philosophy of UnityNotesReferencesIndex

Philosophers rarely write big books that could change the world, but Blood Oil is such a book. Wenar does not shy away from the horrific consequences of current trade practices, nor from the philosophical arguments needed to show that this trade rests on ethically indefensible assumptions. Yet instead of leaving us to despair, he offers realistic ways of bringing about change that would make the world a better and fairer place."

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