Foreign Affairs article   (1300 words)

 
 
 

Review of Blood Oil by Tom Burgis in the financial times   (1200 words)

 

 interview on al jazeera   (5 minute video)

 
 

Interview on RT   (8 minute video) (video became unavailable during the war in ukraine)

 
 
 
 

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 these 'resource curse threats', according to King's College London Professor Leif Wenar, is an archaic law in global trade that empowers authoritarians and armed groups.

 
 
 
 

cnn article   (700 words)

 
 
 
 

Interview on PRI's 'the world'   (4 minute audio)

 

Petróleo, diamantes, cobre... Recursos que deberían ser una bendición nacional pero terminan siendo una maldición. El filósofo, Leif Wenar, nos revela el lado oscuro del comercio internacional de materias primas. En Twitter: @efectonaim En Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EfectoNaim En Instagram: @efectonaim Suscríbase al boletín: http://ow.ly/SktN9 Lo esperamos en www.efectonaim.net

Interview with Moisés Naím (in Spanish)   (8 minute video)

 
 
 
 
 

philosophy bites interview   (19 minute audio)

 

Interview with michael watts of berkeley, WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL, SAN FRANCISCO   (60 minute video)

 
 
 
 
 
 

review of blood oil by Nazrin Mehdiyeva in LSE Review of books   (1500 words)

 

review of blood oil by justin hughes in the los angeles review of books   (1200 words)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Talk by Leif Wenar author of "Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World" recorded January 27, 2016 at Town Hall Seattle.

 

conversation with dale jamieson, author of reason in a dark time   (28 minute audio)

 

review of blood oil by kendra hovey in medium   (1200 words)

 
 

CATO INSTITUTE EVENT   (86 minute audio and video)

 
 

Playbill for the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center   (1400 words)

 
 
 
 
 

interview on platts capitol crude

 
 

Interview on Your Call with Rose Aguilar on KALW SAN FRANCISCO    (53 minute audio)

 
 

Who do natural resources belong to? Why are many resource-rich countries so poor and what can we do about it? Watch and find out! Politics Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvoAL-KSZ32fs6KX9IqqZY_0D4YXggcBN Subscribe!

entertaining explanation of an early version of blood oil