Oil, the Arab--Israel dispute, and the industrial world: horizons of crisis. [Book: 20 papers]
- ed.
This book is the product of a multinational project, sponsored by the Middle East Institute of Columbia University in cooperation with the World Peace Foundation (Boston), the Atlantic Institute for Internal Affairs (Paris), and the Asia-Pacific Association of Japan (Tokyo). It focuses on the principal unresolved issues of the energy crisis, the Arab-Israel dispute, and their tangled effects that feed back to and feed upon relations with the North Atlantic countries and Japan. Since almost all the papers were originally presented for discussion to three study groups--North American (US and Canada), Western European, and Japanese--it was possible to assess the domestic interests and pressures that inhibit and those that promote cooperation among the major nonsocialist industrial states and to illuminate the linkages between the domestic influences and the national policymaking processes. This symposium comes into focus as a study, not of one issue, but of the intersection of three. For analytical purposes, the energy crisis and the Arab-Israel dispute are decoupled. The decoupled analysis forms the subject matter of the first two parts of the book. Thereafter, the Middle East problem of popular perception is reconstituted. The chapters of the third part inquire into major effects in the Middle East of the mixing of oil and politics and speculate on likely developments in the coming decade of this still potent mixture. The fourth part considers primary aspects of the evolving patterns of international political economy, as influenced by the energy crisis or its linkage to the Arab-Israel dispute.
- OSTI ID:
- 7212457
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: One of Westview Special Studies on the Middle East
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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