The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers (The Shiloah Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, The Monograph Series)

xviii, 630 pp. Brings the story up to date by linking it to the energy crisis of the 1970s. Traces the course of the negotiations, maneuvers and conflicts which have marked relations between the oil companies, the producing countries and the Great Powers over the past 70 years, the book examines the impact of oil on the Middle East itself as well as its strategic and political role in the international arena and prospects of the future.