Blood Oil · Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World by Wenar, Leif -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Series page Halftitle page Title page Copyright page Epigraph 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 Have 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

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.”8 Rents and Clients “Every Man There Is a Barrator … For Money, of No They Make Ay”28 Eating the Money The Violence-Client Mix Public 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

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 Oritur26 An Ancient, Open Secret The Deepest Cause of the Resource Diseases Effectiveness Between History and Principle

6 Curses on Us Petrocrats, Terrorists, and Conflict

A 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 Hands

Blood Money Opening the Home Market Hiding in the Light

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 The United State Design Constraints on the International System

11 Popular Resource Sovereignty

Royalties Popular Resource Sovereignty The Alpha and Omega of the Covenants Power to the Citizens Scare Stories Present Your Terms We the Owners O Petróleo é Nosso: The Oil Is Ours It’s Clear Enough—But Is It Tough Enough?

12 The State of the Law

Life, Logic, Law The Mask of State Peoples Means Regimes Principals and Agents The Doctrine of State Unities Fully Furnished, Available Now

13 Popular Philosophy

Peoples Existing and Acting The State Agent Conditions for Authorization The Epistemology of Authority Arabia, Oil, Authority Saudi: Sapere Aude36 Benevolent Despotism Line-Drawing

14 Our Corruption Why Leaders Must Lie

It Should Be So Easy Pressing the Secretary of State The Impossible Webpage The State’s Predicament Our Predicament Our Fortunate Circumstance

IV. Clean Trade

15 Principles for Action

Almost There Popular Sovereignty and Property The Price of Principle Costly Action and Trust The Fear of Moving First The Long Run Deep Knee Bends The Flux of the World The Prize

16 Clean Trade Policy I Protecting Property

Enforcing Property Rights: A Clean Trade Act Enforcing Property Rights: Relations with Trade Partners Questions and Answers Green Trade Strategy Open Doors

17 Clean Trade Policy II Supporting Accountability

Everyone Hits the Same Target Supporting Public Accountability Giving Citizens Their Money One Hand Dirty, One Hand Clean? Winx Almost There

V. All United

18 The Future

The Crises of Our Invention Is Humanity Getting Smarter? “The Earth Hath He Given to the Children of Men.”19 “Don’t Think; Look.”29 Grinding Together or Growing Together? People over Patterns, Relations over Allocations You Are the Enlightenment

Epilogue: The Philosophy of Unity

Counter-Power and Freedom The Free Unity of Ends Redeeming Power Power and the Promotion of Unity Identities and Free Unity The Value of Power Seek Unity

Notes

Introduction Need to Know Basis Summary of the Book Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Epilogue

References Index

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