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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190262923
ISBN-13
9780190262921
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211329474
Product Key Features
Book Title
Blood Oil : Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Developing & Emerging Countries, General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
35.3 Oz
Item Length
6.5 in
Item Width
9.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-023440
Reviews
"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." --Peter Singer, Princeton University "It is time that we woke up to the fact that the level of our dependence on certain resources means that we let ourselves be blackmailed by tyrants. Our comfort is purchased by collusion with regimes that are responsible for high levels of human misery, injustice and bigotry. This courageous and forceful book challenges us to make the hard decision that might change this worsening situation. It is a serious and urgent appeal to the conscience of the West." --Dr. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and Leader of the Anglican Communion "Blood Oil is a brilliant inquiry into ethical implications of our dependence on the petroleum trade--and the uncomfortable fact that it fuels many violent conflicts and funds a large fraction of the world''s autocrats. Wenar shows that much of this oil has been stolen from the citizens who rightfully own it, nests this issue in the historic struggle for the right of self-determination, and suggests a way to rectify this injustice that is surprisingly practical. This book is not merely a major scholarly achievement; it is both politically urgent and compulsively readable." --Michael Ross, UCLA, author of The Oil Curse "Have you ever worried that your spending might be supporting the ''sociopathic rulers and sadistic militias'' that blight so many countries in Africa and around the world? Or that your purchases of oil are supporting injustice and oppression, just as British purchases of sugar once supported the enslavement of Africans? Leif Wenar has written the indispensible guide, combining politics, economics, and ethics to tell us just how and why we are all involved, and what we ought to do to make the world a better place." --Angus Deaton, Princeton University "Blood Oil is an inspiring book. It will make you think differently about everything you buy--from cell phones to children''s toys--and make you realize just how complicit we have become in the rights-crushing autocracies that produce the raw materials from which these everyday products are made. But Blood Oil also lays out, in careful detail, a clean trade strategy that will bring our complicity to an end and help poor people recover sovereignty over their resources. It is also a delight to read: free of jargon and ideology, an engaging, ironic and eloquent tour de force of moral passion." --Michael Ignatieff, Harvard Kennedy School of Government "This is a long-awaited study of power in the contemporary world, in oil markets and the often corrupted power-plays that they engender. Leif Wenar is a philosopher with profound understanding of the daily, practical world. His big book should become required reading." --Lord Carlile of Berriew, Independent Reviewer of UK Terrorism Legislation 2001-11 "''Telling the person in the seat next to you that you are interested in philosophy,'' observes Leif Wenar, ''will often result in an uninterrupted flight.'' This lively book gives strong evidence that interruption is sometimes a wise course of action. Writing in an engaging, conversational style, Wenar trenchantly and provocatively explores one of the great moral challenges of our time. Although the benefits from development and global connectedness-in which we are all inescapably complicit-have been huge, some of those benefits have flowed to people who have systematically made the lives of others desperate and miserable." --John Mueller, political scientist at Ohio State University and the Cato Institute, co-author of Chasing Ghosts and Terror, Security, and Money, "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." --Peter Singer, Princeton University "It is time that we woke up to the fact that the level of our dependence on certain resources means that we let ourselves be blackmailed by tyrants. Our comfort is purchased by collusion with regimes that are responsible for high levels of human misery, injustice and bigotry. This courageous and forceful book challenges us to make the hard decision that might change this worsening situation. It is a serious and urgent appeal to the conscience of the West." --Dr. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and Leader of the Anglican Communion "Blood Oil is a brilliant inquiry into ethical implications of our dependence on the petroleum trade--and the uncomfortable fact that it fuels many violent conflicts and funds a large fraction of the world's autocrats. Wenar shows that much of this oil has been stolen from the citizens who rightfully own it, nests this issue in the historic struggle for the right of self-determination, and suggests a way to rectify this injustice that is surprisingly practical. This book is not merely a major scholarly achievement; it is both politically urgent and compulsively readable." --Michael Ross, UCLA, author of The Oil Curse "Have you ever worried that your spending might be supporting the 'sociopathic rulers and sadistic militias' that blight so many countries in Africa and around the world? Or that your purchases of oil are supporting injustice and oppression, just as British purchases of sugar once supported the enslavement of Africans? Leif Wenar has written the indispensible guide, combining politics, economics, and ethics to tell us just how and why we are all involved, and what we ought to do to make the world a better place." --Angus Deaton, Princeton University "Blood Oil is an inspiring book. It will make you think differently about everything you buy--from cell phones to children's toys--and make you realize just how complicit we have become in the rights-crushing autocracies that produce the raw materials from which these everyday products are made. But Blood Oil also lays out, in careful detail, a clean trade strategy that will bring our complicity to an end and help poor people recover sovereignty over their resources. It is also a delight to read: free of jargon and ideology, an engaging, ironic and eloquent tour de force of moral passion." --Michael Ignatieff, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
338.27285
Table Of Content
IntroductionNeed to Know Basis: The Facts about Resources, the Oil Companies and the Oil Countries.Summary of the BookPart I: Then v. Them1. Addicted to Money2. Power - What Big Men Want3. Coercion, Corruption...4. ... Then Maybe BloodPart II: Them v. Us v. Us5. Might Makes Right6. Curses on Us: Petrocrats, Terrorists and Conflict7. How Might Makes Right8. Gripping Dirty HandsPart III: The People's Rights9. Counter-Power10. The Determination of Peoples11. Popular Resource Sovereignty12. The State of the Law13. Popular Philosophy14. Our Corruption: Why Leaders Must LiePart IV: Clean Trade Policy15. Principles for Action16. Clean Trade Policy I - Protecting Property Rights17. Clean Trade Policy II - Empowering the PeoplePart V: All United18. The Future TogetherEpilogue. The Ideal of UnityNotesReferencesIndex
Synopsis
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., 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., 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 gasstation 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 thwartsdemocracy 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 onauthoritarian 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 athome, 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., 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.
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