Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World

He earned his degrees in Philosophy from Stanford and from Harvard, where he worked with John Rawls and with Robert Nozick. He has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton and at Stanford, and has been a Fellow of the Carnegie Council Program in Justice and the World Economy.. Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy and Law at King's College London

For that alone, it is well worth reading." --War on the Rocks"Informative, thoughtful, exceptionally well organized and presented, thoroughly researched and impressively argued from beginning to endVery highly recommended." --Midwest Book Review. But Leif Wenar, a philosopher at King's College London, pushes these ideas further, with uncomfortable consequences In jargon-free prose, Mr Wenar argues persuasively that Western consumers are blinded to the fact that international trade still operates according to the 'law of the jungle' .He reveals a horrible truth: that global free trade is, at times, bound up in blood." --The Economi

Most Important Book Since Theory of Justice Raymond Ravaglia All too often philosophers stop short worrying about problems at a theoretical level. Blood Oil takes a foundational problem of rights and sees it through in great detail into the world in which we live and works through the ramifications there of. Written in an engaging and conversational style the authors walks us through detailed analyses of how our unthinking behavior is making the world a much worse place than it needs to be and how through conscious efforts, using existing legal apparatus and international frameworks, we can right this wrong and see justice for bil. Nadoka said Five Stars. Well written, carefully thought through discussion of our current shared planetary conundrum we have gotten ourselves into.. "Author did his homework & gave great opinions based on the facts" according to Lee A. Scott. This book was very informative. Author did his homework & gave great opinions based on the facts.

This book shows citizens, consumers and leaders how we can act together today to create a more united human future. Readers discover 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 shoppers out of business with the men of blood. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and Congo's militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. . For decades resource-fueled authoritarians and extremists have forced endless crises on the West - and the ultimate source of their resource money is us, paying at the gas station and the mall.In this sweeping new book,