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Blood Oil
In this sweeping 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.
Blood Oil
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 shopper...
Beyond Blood Oil
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 global peace and stability. Wenar sets out Clean Trade policies to lift the oil curse through national legislation that affirms democratic principles. In Beyond Blood Oil, Wenar summarizes and extends his views, setting the stage for five essays from first-class critics from the fields of political theory, philosophy, and energy politics. Wenar replies vigorously and frankly to the critics, making the volume the scene of a highly energetic debate that will benefit all scholars, students, and global citizens interested in global justice, international security, oil politics, fair trade, climate change, and progressive reforms.
Hayek on Hayek
This book traces the life's work of a man now widely regarded as one of the greatest economists, political philosophers and social theorists of the century. The result is the most alive and accessible introduction to Hayek to date.
Giving Well
So long as large segments of humanity are suffering chronic poverty and are dying from treatable diseases, organized giving can save or enhance millions of lives. With the law providing little guidance, ethics has a crucial role to play in ensuring that the philanthropic practices of individuals, foundations, NGOs, governments, and international agencies are morally sound and effective. In Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, an accomplished trio of editors bring together an international group of distinguished philosophers, social scientists, lawyers and practitioners to identify and address the most urgent moral questions arising today in the practice of philanthropy. The topics discus...
Global Justice and Transnational Politics
Essays exploring the prospects for transnational democracy in a world of increasing globalization.
Thomas Pogge and His Critics
The political philosopher Thomas Pogge has emerged as one of the world's most ardent critics of global injustice. In this book Pogge's challenging and controversial ideas are debated by leading political philosophers from a range of philosophical viewpoints.
On the Nature of Rights
Leif Wenar, in quot;The Nature of Rights,quot; claims to have provided an analytical framework which is not only adequate for explicating all assertions of rights but whose deployment offers a way out of the deadlock he believes to exist between will theories and interest theories regarding the nature of rights. To have accomplished one, let alone both, of these things would be a significant achievement in the field of rights theory. It is therefore worth showing why, unfortunately, he has not succeeded on either score. Despite the clarity of Wenar's exposition of his own position, and notwithstanding the incisive insights he brings to bear in the course of it, his revised Hohfeldian analytical framework does not in fact serve better than the original to clarify what is at stake in controversies over rights, and his deployment of it does not provide a cogent alternative to the interest theory.
Petróleo de sangre
Los recursos naturales cimentan el poder de los dictadores del mundo. Autócratas como Putin y los príncipes saudíes invierten el dinero del petróleo en armas y represión. Las milicias del Estado Islámico y el Congo utilizan el dinero del petróleo en atrocidades y munición. Desde hace décadas los regímenes autoritarios y extremistas, financiados por estos recursos, han forzado interminables crisis en Occidente, y la verdadera fuente de su dinero somos nosotros, los consumidores occidentales, pagando en la gasolinera y en el centro comercial. En este libro de gran alcance uno de los principales filósofos politicos del momento, Leif Wenar, analiza las reglas ocultas que amenazan la democracia y el desarrollo y que nos vinculan con las personas más peligrosas del mundo. Petróleo de sangre nos muestra como se puede liderar una revolución pacífica acabando con esta dependencia.
On Global Justice
Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among all human beings. On Global Justice shifts the terms of this debate and shows how both views are unsatisfactory. Stressing humanity's collective ownership of the earth, Mathias Risse offers a new theory of global distributive justice--what he calls pluralist internationalism--where in different contexts, different principles of justice apply. Arguing that statists and cosmopolitans seek overarching...
