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

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Cover; Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; THE MOTHER OF INVENTIONS; THE LIFE MACHINE; THE CURSE OF NATURAL RESOURCES; THE OIL AROUND US, ON US, IN US; DO WE REALLY HACE TO CARE ABOUT THIS?; THE FOG OF WARES; CURSES ON US; EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS; YOU OWN SAUDI ARABIA; TO SEE THE WORLD IN A DROP OF OIL; Need to Know Basis: The Facts About Resources, the Oil Companies, and the Oil Countries; THE CATHEDRALS OF MODERNITY; THE ROAR OF FOSSILS; LIFE ON IRON ROCK; PETROWORLD; GET THEE BEHIND ME, PETRO; COUNTRIES AND COMPANIES

EMERGING FROM THE MUD Summary of the Book ; PREVIEW OF THE BOOK; THE PURE THEORY OF BLOOD OIL; Part I: Them vs. Them; 1: Addicted to Money; OIL IS ALCOHOL, DIAMONDS ARE DRUGS; THE LIVES OF ADDICTS; ADDICTED TO MONEY; THE WORLD'S BEST ADDICT; THE CAPITAL AND CONSTITUTION OF STRONG PEOPLES; 2: Power: What Big Men Want; THE SUN KING'S SECRET GIFTS TO THE MERRY MONARCH; WHAT BIG MEN WANT; THE TRAD SOURCES OF POWER; 3: Coercion, Corruption . . .; HOW TO SPEND IT; "THEY. SHOT. THE. PEOPLE."; RENTS AND CLIENTS; "EVERY MAN THERE IS A BARRATOR . . . FOR MONEY, OF NO THEY MAKE AY"; EATING THE MONEY

THE VIOLENCE-CLIENT MIXPUBLIC GOODS AND BADS; AUTHORITARIAN LEGITIMATION; THE BIG MAN AND HIS BIG HAND; 4: . . . Then Maybe Blood; COERCION, CORRUPTION, THEN MAYBE BLOOD; THE SPOILS OF WAR; THE WORLD'S WORST WAR; NIGERIA IS FAR FROM NORWAY; POLITICAL PATHOLOGIES: INTERACTIONS AND ADDITIONS; OIL IS A THREE-LETTER WORD; Part II: Them vs. Us vs. Us; 5: Might Makes Right; DIRT CHEAP; THE ARMPIT OF AFRICA; OUR CONNECTION TO THE RESOURCE DISORDERS; EX INJURIA JUS ORITUR; AN ANCIENT, OPEN SECRET; THE DEEPEST CAUSE OF THE RESOURCE DISEASES; EFFECTIVENESS BETWEEN HISTORY AND PRINCIPLE

6: Curses on Us: Petrocrats, Terrorists, and ConflictA RISKY BUSINESS; AID TO THE ENEMY; THE CHIMERA OF STABILITY: IRAN; THE OPAQUE AUTOCRAT OF IRAQ; GLOBALIZING MEDIEVALISM: SAUDI ARABIA; THE THIRD BALLOON; GIVE ME FUEL, GIVE ME FIRE; FRAGILE AND FAILED; TOMORROW'S HEADLINES; 7: How Might Makes Right; GUNS MAKE RIGHTS; MAKING LAW ON HIGH ISLAND; ALL PROPERTY IS LOCAL; MIGHT MAKES LAW MAKES RIGHT; THE LAW THAT IS NOT LAW; WHY MIGHT?; LEGAL HOMOLOGARCHY: THE RULE OF THE SAME RULES; THE DICTATOR'S ENGAGEMENT; FOREIGN INJUSTICE ON HOME SOIL; THE NATURALIZATION OF RESOURCES

8: Grasping Dirty HandsBLOOD MONEY; OPENING THE HOME MARKET; HIDING IN THE LIGHT; Part III: The People's Rights; 9: Counter-Power; A MORAL HISTORY OF PLUNDER; VAE VICTIS; THE FALL OF CHRISTENDOM; THE JURISPRUDENCE OF THE JUNGLE; WESTPHALIAN EVOLUTION; THE COUNTER-POWER OF AGREEMENT; DRAWING THE MAP IN PEN; AMERICAN IMPERIALISTS; CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE MODERN STATE SYSTEM; A STARFISH HISTORY; ANARCHY, STATE, AND COUNTER-POWER; 10: The Determination of Peoples; THE KING PLAYS CHESS; POWER TO THE PEOPLE?; WESTPHALIA VS. SAN FRANCISCO; THE WINNERS OF WORLD WAR III; HERE THE PEOPLE RULE

"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.

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