Leif Wenar: 4 books

Leif Wenar’s 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World argues that much of the conflict, suffering, and injustice in the world is driven by an archaic rule in global trade that forces consumers to fund oppression and corruption. This oil curse is a major threat to...

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...

Il petrolio, che non è solo benzina, ma anche plastica, tessuti sintetici ed energia elettrica, è il bene più prezioso del mondo, ma anche quello che crea più conflitti. Le risorse naturali della terra sono in tutto ciò che leggiamo, guidiamo, indossiamo e mangiamo ogni giorno e rappresentano...

Kwame Nkrumah is globally recognized as a foremost pan-Africanist strategist and statesman. He is less widely acknowledged as a philosopher, in spite of his considerable philosophical training, seminal contribution to African political theory, and incisive critique of the ethics of international relations....