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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 the source of their resource power is ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • 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 the source of their resource power is ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Beyond Blood Oil

    Philosophy, Policy, and the Future

    by Leif Wenar, Michael Blake, Aaron James, Christopher Kutz, Nazrin Mehdiyeva, Anna Stilz ...
    Series series Explorations in Contemporary Social-Political Philosophy
    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 ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Giving Well

    The Ethics of Philanthropy

    Edited by Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, Leif Wenar ...
    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 ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Hayek on Hayek

    An Autobiographical Dialogue

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    The crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the iron curtain, and the Reagan and Thatcher "revolutions" all owe a tremendous debt to F. A. Hayek. Economist, social and political theorist, and intellectual historian, Hayek passionately championed individual liberty and condemned the dangers of state control. Now Hayek at last tells the story of his long and controversial career, during which his ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ethics & International Affairs

    A Reader, Third Edition

    by Joel H. Rosenthal, David C. Hendrickson, Neta C. Crawford, David A. Crocker, Michael J. Smith, Terry Nardin, Alex J. Bellamy, Robyn Eckersley, Allen Buchanan0, Robert O. Keohane1, Seyla Benhabib2, Alison M. Jaggar3, Joseph H. Carens4, Ethan B. Kapstein5, Robert Wade6, Leif Wenar7, Thomas Pogge8, Mathias Risse9 ...
    The third edition of Ethics & International Affairs provides a fresh selection of classroom resources, ideal for courses in international relations, ethics, foreign policy, and related fields. Published with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, this collection contains some of the best contemporary scholarship on international ethics, written by a group of distinguished ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disentangling Consciencism

    Essays on Kwame Nkrumah's Philosophy

    by Martin Odei Ajei, Kofi Ackah, Paulin J. Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan, Marcien Towa, Katrin Flikschuh, Stephen C. Ferguson II, John H. McClendon III, Richmond Kwesi0, Mogobe Ramose1, Ezekiel Mkhwanazi2, Raymond Osei3, Neera Chandhoke4, Thaddeus Metz5, Louise du Toit6, Leif Wenar7, Barry Hallen8 ...
    Series series African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
    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. Consciencism has the distinctive status of being the only published book that Nkrumah ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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    Neoliberalism and Global Order

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Why is the Atlantic slowly filling with crude petroleum, threatening a millions-of-years-old ecological balance? Why did traders at prominent banks take high-risk gambles with the money entrusted to them by hundreds of thousands of clients around the world, expanding and leveraging their investments to the point that failure led to a global financial crisis that left millions of people jobless and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    A Brief Introduction

    by Bruce Caldwell ...
    Series series Chicago Shorts
    The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek’s 1944 warning against the dangers of government control, continues to influence politics more than seventy years after it was turned down by three American publishers and finally published by the University of Chicago Press. A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, the definitive edition of The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The White Man's Burden

    Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

    by William Easterly ...
    **From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world."Brilliant at diagnosing the failings of Western intervention in the Third World." —BusinessWeek**In his previous book, The Elusive Quest for Growth, William Easterly criticized the utter ineffectiveness of Western ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Marx

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Karl Marx is one of the most influential philosophers of all time, whose theories have shaped and directed political, economic, and social thought for 150 years. Considering Marx's life and impact, renowned philosopher Peter Singer identifies the central vision that unifies Marx's thought, enabling us to grasp Marx's views as a whole. Presenting Marx as a philosopher primarily concerned with human ... Read more

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  • The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (Revised Edition)

    Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

    by Fareed Zakaria ...
    “A work of tremendous originality and insight. ... Makes you see the world differently.”—Washington PostA modern classic that uses historical analysis to shed light on the present, The Future of Freedom is, as the Chicago Tribune put it, "essential reading for anyone worried about the promotion and preservation of liberty." Hailed by the New York Times as "brave and ambitious...updated Tocqueville ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD