Blood Oil - Prof. Leif Wenar - University of Hamburg
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Blood Oil
About the Lecture
The Soviet Union, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Al Qaeda, ISIS … for 40 years the West’s most serious foreign threats and crises have come from oil states. What drives the “oil curse” is an archaic law in global trade that empowers authoritarians and armed groups by sending money from our everyday purchases to fund their violence and corruption. The West’s strategies for countering the power of oil have so far failed. But we can now abolish the law that makes us buy blood oil, and make real progress toward a safer, more just and more peaceful world.
About the Speaker
Leif Wenar holds the Chair of Philosophy and Law at King’s College London. He earned his degrees in Philosophy from Stanford and from Harvard, where he worked with John Rawls and with Robert Nozick. He has been a Visiting Professor at Princeton and at Stanford, and has been a Fellow of the Carnegie Council Program in Justice and the World Economy. Wenar is the author of the acclaimed Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Thinkers in Philosophy & Public Policy
Our precarious times call for a rethinking and renewal of the shared underpinnings of an open, diverse, and inclusive democratic society. To support this process, the Institute of Philosophy is offering a lecture series with leading thinkers who are confronting the challenges and chances that we are facing in all dimensions of life. The idea of this series is to develop a culture of reason, reflection, and responsibility by bringing fundamental global debates to the heart of the campus. The series is about connecting philosophical enquiry to pragmatic action.