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

by Leif Wenar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190262923
• ISBN13: 9780190262921
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.5" x 9.1"