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

by Leif Wenar

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

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

494

ISBN

9780190262921