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    Last updated 25 April 1999
    Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin.
    Questions, Comments, and Suggestions to chenry@gov.utexas.edu

    General Surveys

    Ayubi, Nazih N., Overstating the Arab State: Politics and Society in the Middle East (London: Tauris, 1995)

    Baaklini, Abdo, Guilain Denoeux, and Robert Springborg, Legislative Polittics in the Arab World (Rienner 1999)

    Brand, Laurie A., Women, the state, and political liberalization : Middle Eastern and North African experiences (New York 1998)

    Field, Michael, Inside the Arab World (Harvard 1994)

    Hiro, Dilip, Dictionary of the Middle East (London: Macmillan 1996)

    Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (Yale 1977 pb)

    Ismael, Tareq, Politics and Government in the Middle East and North Africa

    Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

    Ann E Mayer, Islam and Human Rights (Westview 1998)

    Owen, Roger, State, Power, and Politics (Routledge, 1992)

    Polk, William R., The Arab World Today (Harvard 1991)

    Sluglett, Peter & Marion Farouk-S The Times Guide to the ME (Westview 1996)

    Frank Tachau, ed., Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa (Greenwood,1994)

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    Algeria

    Addi, Lahouari, "Algeria's Tragic Contradictions" Jo of Democracy 7:3 94-107 July 1996

    Addi, Lahouari, L'algerie et la democratie, Paris: La Decouverte, 1995

    El-Kenz, Ali, Algerian Reflections on Arab Crises, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, 1991.

    Entelis, Algeria: The Revolution Institutionalized (Westview, 1986)

    Hidouci, Ghazi, Algerie: la liberation inachevee (Paris, La Decouverte, 1995)

    Martinez, Louis, La guerre civile en Algerie (Karthala, 1998)

    Messaoudi, Khalida, Unbowed: an Algerian Woman Confronts Islamic Fundamentalism (Penn, 1998)

    Nashashibi, K & P. Alonso-Gamo, Algeria: Stabilization and Transition to Market, IMF occasional paper no. 165 (1998)

    Stone, Martin, The Agony of Algeria (Columbia UP, 1998)

    Willis, Michael, The Islamist Challenge in Algeria (NYU Prress, 1998)

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    Egypt

    Bianchi, R., Unruly Corporatism: Associational Life in 20th Century Egypt (1989)

    Copley, Gregory R. Defense & FA Handbook: Egypt IMC London 1995

    Farid, Abdel Magid Nasser - The Final Years Ithaca 1994, 1996 pb

    Goldberg, Ellis Tinker, Tailor and Textile Worker: Class and Politics in Egypt (Berkeley UC 1986)

    Harik, Iliya, Economic Policy Reform in Egypt (UP of Florida, 1997)

    Heikal, M., Autumn of Fury: The Assassination of Sadat

    Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

    B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984, 2nd ed. 1991).

    Robert Springborg, Mubarak's Egypt (Westview Press, 1989)

    Sullivan, Denis and Sana Abed-Kotob, Islam in Contemporary Egypt (Rienner 1999)

    Tignor, Robert, Egyptian Textiles and British Capital: 1930-1956 (Cairo: AUC 1989)

    Vitalis, Robert, When Capitalists Collide: Business Coflict and the end of Empire in Egypt (Berkeley UC 1995)

    Wahba, Morad M. The Role of the State in the Egyptian Economy 1945-1981 Raeding UK: Ithaca Press 1994

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    Iran

    Amouzegar, Jahanjir, Iranian economy (1997)

    Said Amir Arjomand, The Turban for the Crown: the Islamic Revolution in Iran (1989)

    Calabrese, John, Revolutionary Horizons: Regional Foreign Policy in post-Khom Iran (St Martin's 1994)

    Cordesman, Anthony H., Iran and Iraq: the threat frm the nortern Gulf (Westview 1994)

    A.Ehteshami, After Khomeini (Routledge 1995)

    Elm, Mostafa Oil, Power and Principle: Iran's Oil Nationalization and its Aftermath Syracuse 1991

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    Iraq

    Baram, Amatzia and Barry Rubin, Iraq's Road to War (St Martin's 1996)

    Batatu, Hanna (John), The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of

    Iraq (Princeton, 1978)

    Helms, C.M. Iraq: The Eastern Flank of the Arab World

    Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

    Khadduri, Majid, The Gulf War: The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict (NY: Oxford University Press, 1988)

    B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1991).

    Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

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    Israel

    Asher Arian, The Second Republic: Politics in Israel (Chatham House, 1997)

    Barnett, Michael N., ed., Israel in Comparative Perspective (SUNY Albany 1996)

    Barzilai, Gad Wars, Internal Conflicts, and Political Order: A Jewish Democracy in the ME (SUNY Albany, 1996)

    Flamhaft, Ziva, Israel on the Road to Peace (Westview 1996)

    Freedman, Robert O., Israel Under Rabin (Westview 1994)

    Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (Anchor pb.1990)

    *Y. Harkabi, Israel's Fateful Hour (Harper and Row, 1989)

    Horowitz, Dan & Moshe Lissak, Trouble in Utopia: The Overburdened Polity of Israel (SUNY Albany 1996)

    Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

    Lustick, Ian, For the land and the Lord : Jewish fundamentalism in Israel. / New York, N.Y. 1988

    Lustick, Ian, Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza (Cornell, 1993)

    Lustick, Ian, and Barry Rubin, eds., Critical Essays on Israeli Society, Politics and Culture (Albany: SUNY Press pb. $12.95, 1990)

    MacBride, Sean, Israel in Lebanon

    Mahler, Gregory S., Israel after Begin. (Albany 1990)

    Makovsky, David, Making Peace with the PLO (Westview 1995)

    Orr, Akiva, The unJewish State: the Politics of Jewish identity in Israel (London: Ithaca Press, 1983).

    Don Peretz and Gideon Doron, The Govt and Politics of Israel, rev. ed. (Westview 1997)

     Rabinovich, I., and Reinharz, eds., Israel in the Middle East

    Reich, Bernard, The United States and Israel (Praeger, 1984)

    M. Roman and A. Weingrod, Living Together Separately (Princeton, 1991)

    Segev, Tom, The First Israelis (NY: Free Press, 1986)

    Shipler, David, Arab and Jew (Penguin, 1986 Pullitzer prize)

    Weitzer, Ronald, Transforming Settler States (UC Press 1990)

    Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, The Controversy of Zion (London: Sinclair-Stevenson 1996)

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    Jordan

    Braizat, Musa S., The Jordanian-Palestinian Relationship (St Martin's 1998)

    Brand, Laurie A. , Jordan's inter-Arab relations : the political economy of alliance making (New York 1994 )

    Day, Arthur, Jordan: East Bank West Bank

     B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984, 2nd ed. 1991).

    Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

    Osaqma, J.A.R. Abu Shair, Privatization and Development (St Martin's, 1997)

    Piro, Timothy J., The political economy of market reform in Jordan, (NY Rowman & Littlefield, 1998)

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    Lebanon

    *Robert Fisk, Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War (pb edition 1991)

    *Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (Anchor pb. 1990)

    Haddad, Wadi D., Lebanon: the Politics of Revolving Doors

    Harris, William, Faces of Lebanon (Markus Wiener 1996)

    Hanf, Theodor, Coexistence in Wartime Lebanon: Decline of a state and rise of a nation (London: IB Tauris & Center for Lebanese Studies, Oxford, 1994)

    Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

    Hudson, Michael, Lebanon: Precarious Republic 2nd ed. 1985.

    Khalaf, Samir, Lebanon's Predicament (NY: Columbia, 1987)

    Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

    MacBride, Sean, Israel in Lebanon

    Petran, Tabitha, The Struggle over Lebanon (Monthly Rev Press, 1987)

    Rabinovich, I., The War for Lebanon, 2nd printing 1985.

    Randal, J., Going All the Way

    Salem, Elie, Violence & Diplomacy in Lebanon (London: Tauris 1995)

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    Libya

    Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif The Making of Modern Libya 1830-1932 (SUNY Albany)

    Anderson, Lisa, The State and Social Transformationin Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980 (Princeton, 1986)

    Mary-Jane Deeb, Libya's Foreign Policy in North Africa (Westview, 1990)

    El-Kikhia, Mansour O., Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction (UP of Florida, 1997)

    Vandewalle, Dirk ed., Qadhafi's Libya 1969 to 1994 (St Martin's, 1995)

     

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    Morocco

    Waterbury, John, Commander of the Faithful: the Moroccan Political Elite (1970).

    Tozy, Mohamed, Monarchie et islam politique au Maroc (Presses de Sciences Po, 1999)

    Zartman, I.W., ed., The Political Economy of Morocco (Praeger, 1987)

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    North Africa

    Henry, Clement M., The Mediterranean Debt Crescent: Money and Power in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey (UP of Florida, 1996)

    Kavanaugh, Andrea L., The Social Control of Technology in North Africa: Information in the Global Economy, (Praeger, 1998)

    Le Gall, Michel & Kenneth Perkins eds., The Maghrib in Question (U Texas Press, 1997)

    Ould-Mey, Mohameden Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Carrot and the Stick in Mauritania (Rowman & Littlefield 1996 )

    Richard Parker, North Africa: Regional Tensions and Strategic Concerns (1984).

    Ruedy, John ed., Islamism and Secularism in NA (St Martin's 1996)

    Shahin, Emad Eldin, Political Ascent - Contemporary Islamic Movements in North Africa (Westview 1997)

    Vandewalle, Dirk, ed., North Africa: Development and Reform in a Changing Global Economy (St, Martin's, 1996)

    Zartman, I.W., and W.M. Habeeb, eds., State and Society in Contemporary North Africa, (Boulder: Westview, 1993)

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    Palestine

    Abdou, Hassan M and Ahmad F Zouaiter, Palestine: Positioning a New Nation (Harvard Business School, 1996)

    Aburish, Saod K., Cry Palestine: Inside the West Bank (Westview, 1993)

    Alexander, Yonah, and Joshua Sinai, Terrorism: The PLO Connection, New York: Crane Russak, 1989.

    Braizat, Musa S., The Jordanian-Palestinian Relationship (St Martin's 1998)

    Brand, Laurie A., Palestinians in the Arab World (NY: Columbia, 1988)

    Brynen, Rex, ed., Echoes of the Intifada, Boulder: Westview, 1991.

    Cobban, Helena, The Palestinian Liberation Organization

    Samih Farhoun, Palestine and the Palestinians (Westview 1997)

    E. Fernea and M. Hocking, eds., Israelis and Palestinians: The Struggle for Peace (UT Press pb., 1992)

    Hiltermann, Joost R., Behind the Intidada:Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories, Princeton, 1992 ($14.95 pb)

    Hart, Alan, Arafat: A Political Biography (Indiana Univ Press pb., 1988).

    Hunter, F. Robert, The Patlestinian Uprising (U of Calif Press, 1993 pb)

    Khalidi, Rashid, Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making During the 1982 War (NY: Columbia, 1985)

    B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1984)--if you can't find or afford to buy the 1991 edition.

    McDowell, David, Palestine and Israel: the Uprising and Beyond (U of California Press, 1989)

    Mishal, Shaul, PLO under Arafat: between gun and olive branch (Yale, 1986).

    Norton, A. Richard, and M.H. Greenberg, The International Relations of the Palestinian Liberation Organization Carbondale: S. Illinois Univ Press, 1989

    *Peretz, Don, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising (Westview, 1990, $14.95)

    Glenn E. Robinson, Building a Palestinian State (Indiana UP, 1997)

    Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip (Washington: Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1995)

    Sahliyeh, E., West Bank Politics since 1967 (Brookings, 1988)

    Said, Edward, After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives (NY, 1986)

    DS 119.7 S332 1986 PCL Stacks

    Said, Edward, and C. Hitchens, eds., Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestine Question (London: Verso, 1988)

    Zahlan, A.B. ed., The Reconsruction of Palestine (London: Kegan Paul 1997)

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    Syria

    Batatu, Hanna, Syria's Peasantry and the descendnents of its rural notables, and their politics (Princeton 1999)

    Dawisha, Adeed, The Arab Radicals (1986).

    Drysdale, A. and R. Hinnebusch, Syria and the Middle East Peace Process (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1991)

    Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

    B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1991).

    Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

    Perthes, Volker, The Political Economy of Syria under Asad (IB Tauris, London 1995; St Martin's, 1997)

    Seale, Patrick, Asad (U of Cal. Press, 1989)

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    Tunisia

    Anderson, Lisa, The State and Social Transformationin Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980 (Princeton, 1986)

    Borowiec, Andrew, Modern Tunisia: a Democratic Apprenticeship (Praeger, 1998)

    Zartman, I.W. ed., Tunisia: The Political Economy of Reform (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1991)

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    Turkey

    Pope, Nicole and Hugh, Turkey Unveiled (Woodstock VT Overlook Press, 1999)

    Rustow, Dan,

     

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    Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states

    Abir, Mordechai, Saudi Arabia (Routledge 1993)

    Aburish, Said K., The Rise, Corruption and Coming Fall of the House of Saud, (St Martins 1995)

    John Duke Anthony, Arab States of the Lower Gulf (Washington, D.C., 1975)

    Abdul-Reda Assiri, Kuwait's Foreign Policy (Westview 1990)

    Chaudhry, Karen Aziz, The Price of Wealth (Cornell, 1997)

    Cordesman, Anthony H., The Iran-Iraq War and Western Security, 1984-87 (New York and London: Jane's. 1987)

    Crystal, Jill, Oil and politics in the Gulf: rulers and merchants in Kuwait and Qatar (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

    Mamoun Fandy, Saudi Arabia and the politics of dissent (St Martin's 1999)

    Finnie, David, Shifting Lines in the Sand (Harvard 1992)

    Halliday, F., Arabia Without Sultans

    Holden and Johns, The House of Saud (Penguin, 1983)

    Hudson, Michael, Arab Politics (useful country portraits) (Yale 1977 pb)

    Kechichian, Joseph, Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy (Rand MR-680-RC 1995)

    Robert Lacey, The Kingdom: Arabia and the House of Saud (NY 1981 pb)

    Long, D.E., and Reich, B., The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

    Nugent, Jeffrey B. and Theodore Thomas, eds., Bahrein and the Gulf (St. Martin's Press, 1985, available at Middle East Center, Doby Bldg, 15th floor)

    Tim Niblock, ed., State, Society, and Economy in Saudi Arabia (New York, 1982)

    Sandra Mackey, The Saudis (1987 pb.)

    Quandt, W.B., Saudi Arabia (Brookings, 1984)

    Peck, Malcolm C., The United Arab Emirates: A Venture in Unity (Westview 1986)

    Safran, N., Saudi Arabia (Harvard, 1985)

    Schofield, Richard, ed., Territorial Foundations of the Gulf States (St Martins 1994)

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    Intra-Arab relations

    Ajami, Fouad, The Arab Predicament (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1981)

    Dawisha, Adeed, The Arab Radicals (NY: Council on Foreign Relations, 1986)

    Kerr, Malcolm H., Arab Cold War.

    Kerr, M.H., and Yassin, eds., Rich and Poor States in the Middle East: Egypt and the New Arab Order (Westview, 1981).

    B. Korani and A. Dessouki, The Foreign Policies of Arab States (Westview, 1991)

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    United States Foreign Policy

    Baker, James, The Politics of Diplomacy (1996)

    George W. Ball, Error and Betrayal in Lebanon (FMEP, 1984)

    G.W. Ball and D.B. Ball, The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present (N.Y.: Norton, 1992)

    James A. Bill, The Eagle and the Lion: the Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations (1988)

    James A. Bill, George Ball: behind the scenes in US foreign policy (Yale 1997)

    H. Bookbinder and J.G. Abourezk, Through Different Eyes, Adler, 1987, $18.95.

    Jimmy Carter, The Blood of Abraham (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985).

    Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy (London 1991)

    Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Boston, 1983)

    Noam Chomsky, Pirates and Emperors: International Terrorism in the Real World (1986)

    Anthony Cordesman, The Iran-Iraq War and Western Security 1984-87

    (London: Jane's Publishing Co., 1987).

    Richard H. Curtiss, Stealth PACs: How Israel's American Lobby Seeks to Control US Middle East Policy (available through American Educational Trust, P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009, $5, 2nd ed May 1990)

    Steven Emerson, The American House of Saud (1985)

    *Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out (Lawrence Hill, 1985)

    Paul Findley, Deliberate Deceptions (Lawrence Hill, 1993)

    Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (Anchor pb 1990)

    Robert M. Gates, 'The CIA and American Foreign Policy," Foreign Affairs, Winter 1987/88, 215-230

    Irene L Gendzier, Notes from the Minefield,US Intewrvention in Lebanon & the Middle East 1945-1958 (Westview 1998)

     

    Glenn P. Hastedt, American Foreign Policy (Prentice Hall, 1988).

    *Seymour M. Hersh, The Sampson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (NY: Vintage pb. 1992)

    Institute of Strategic Studies (London): annual publication gives data

    on arms, strategic balance in the region.

    I.L. Kenen, Israel's Defense Line (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1981)

    Jerusalem Post

    Middle East International

    Middle East Journal

    Middle East Policy

    Middle East Report

    Nabeel A. Khoury, "The Arab Lobby: Problems and Prospects,: The Middle

    East Journal, 41:3 (summer 1987): 379-396.

    Henry Kissinger, The White House Years (various editions)

    Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, eds., The Israel-Arab Reader (4th ed. 1984)

    George Lenczowski, American Presidents and the Middle East (Duke U. Press, 1990)

    Everett Mendelsohn, A Compassionate Peace (Noonday Press, 1989)

    Donald Neff, Fallen Pillars (Washington: Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1995)

    William B. Quandt, Peace Process (Brookings pb, 1993)

    William Quandt, Camp David; Peacemaking and Politics, Washington: Brookings (1986).

    William B. Quandt, ed., The Middle East: Ten Years after Camp David (Brookings, 1988).

    Payaslian, Simon, US Foreign Economic and Military Aid: The Reagan and Bush Admins (UP of America 1995)

    D.T. Regan, For the Record (St. Martin's pb., 1988)

    Cheryl A. Rubenberg, Israel and the American National Interest (U of IL pb., 1986)

    Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (NY 1993)

    Edward Said, Covering Islam: how the media and the experts determine how we see the rest of the world (NY 1981)

    Hedrick Smith, The Power Game: How Washington Really Works (paperback)

    Suleiman, Michael, ed., U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton (Washington: AAUG Press, 1995)

    *Steven Spiegel, The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict (U of Chicago Press, 1985)

    Richard Stevens, American Zionism and U.S. Foreign Policy 1942-1947 (1962, 1970).

    Raymond Tanter, Who's at the Helm: Lessons of Lebanon (Westview, 1990)

    Edward Tivnan, The Lobby (Simon and Schuster pb, 1988).

    Bob Woodward, Veil: the Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (Pocket Books, 1987)

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    Oil and the Middle East

    Abir, Mordechai Saudi Arabia: the Oil Era (Westview, 1988)

    Ali, Sheikh R. Oil and Power (NY: St Martin's, 1987)

    Almulhim, Mohamed A. Middle East Oil: A Redistribution of Values Arising from the Oil Industry (University Press of America, 1991)

    Alnasrawi, Abbas OPEC in a Changing World Economy, 1985

    Alnasrawi, Abbas Arab Nationalism, Oil, and the Political Economy of Dependency, New York, 1991.

    Anderson, Irvine H. Aramco, the United States, and Saudi Arabia, 1985

    Anthony, John Duke, ed., The Middle East: Oil, Politics and Development (D.C., 1975)

    ARAMCO, Aramco, (available at MERC, SSB 3:122) 1987

    Bialer, Uri, Oil and the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948-1963 (St Antony's Macmillan 1998)

    Birks, J.S. and C.A. Sinclair, Arab Manpower (London, 1980)

    Blair, John M., The Control of Oil (Vintage pb 1978)

    Bromley, Simon, American Hegemony and World Oil, Penn State Press, 1991

    Burrowes, Robt. D., "Oil Strike and Leadership Struggle in South Yemen: 1986 and Beyond," The Middle East Journal, 43:3 (summer 1989), pp. 437-454.

    Chassard, Christophe Option Trading and Oil Futures Markets, 1987

    Ron Chernow, John D. Rockefeller - Titan

    Clubley, Sally Trading in oil futures, 1986

    Crystal, Jill, Oil and politics in the Gulf (Cambridge, 1995)

    Davis, David H., Energy Politics, Third Edition(NY 1982)

    Daoudi, M.S. and M.S. Dajani, Economic Diplomacy: Embargo Leverage (Westview 1985)

    El Azhary, M.S.,ed., The Impact of oil revenues on Arab Gulf development. / London 1984

    Robert Engler, The Brotherhood of Oil (U Chic. pb.)

    Farid, Abdel Majid and H Sirriyeh, The Decline of Arab Oil Revenues (London1986)

    Freedman, Lawrence, and Efraim Karsh, The Gulf Conflict: 1990-1991: Diplomacy and War in the New World Order, Princeton, 1993

    Gelb, Alan et al, Oil Windfalls: Blessing or Curse, World Bank, Oxford UP, 1988

    Hess, Andrew, Oil and Money (Glenlake, 1997)

    Horwich, Geo and DL Weimer eds., Responding to International Oil Crises (American Enterprise Inst, 1988)

    Ibrahim, Saad Eddin, The New Arab Social Order: A Study of the Social Impact of Oil Wealth (Westview, 1982)

    Ikenberry, G. John, Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacity of Amerian Govt (Cornell pb, 1988)

    Jones, Peter Ellis Oil: A Practical guide to the Economics of World Petroleum, 1988

    Layachi, Azzedine The United States and North Africa Greenwood (includes a case study of LNG contract negotiation betweeen USA and Algeria) 1990

    Roy Licklider, Political Power and the Arab Oil Weapon (Cal 1988)

    Lieber, Robert J. The Oil Decade Uni P of Am pb. (1983)1986

    Luciani, G., The Oil Companies and the Arab World (St. Martin's Press, 1984)

    Mallakh, Ragaei El & M. Kadhim, The Egyptian Energy Sector (Westview 1989)

    Melamid, Alexander, Oil and the Economic Geography of the Middle East and North Africa (Darwin, 1991)

    Mosely, Leonard, Power Play (Penguin, Random House, 1974)

    Noreng, Oystein, Oil and Islam: Social and Economic Issues (Wiley 1997)

     

    Walter A. Rosenbaum, Energy Politics and Public Policy, 2nd ed (1987)

    Sampson, Anthony The Seven Sisters, 1975

    Sayigh, Youssef Arab Oil Policies in the 1970s, 1983

    Shamsedin, Ezzedin M Arab oil and the United States: an admixture of politics and economics Columbia UP, 1974 HD 9576 N36 S52 PCL

    Skeet, Ian, OPEC: 25 years of prices and politics (Cambridge UP, 1988)

    Stivers, William Supremacy and Oil 1918-1930 (Cornell, 1982)

    Vernon, Raymond, The Oil Crisis (NY: Norton, 1976)

    Daniel Yergin, The Prize...Oil, Money and Power (Simon and Schuster, 1991)

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    Political Economy

    Alleyne, Mark D., International Power and International Communications (St Martin's 1996)

    Ayubi, Nazih, Overstating the Arab State (Tauris 1995)

    Barnett, Michael N., Confronting the Costs of War: Militry Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel (Princeton 1992)

    Simon Bromley, Rethinking Middle East Politics (U of Texas Press, 1994)

    Ali Carkoglu, Mine Eder, Ali Kirisci, The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in the Middle East (Routledge, 1999)

    Cordesman, Anthony H., Perilous Prospects: The Peace Process and the Arab-israeli Military Balance (Westview 1996)

    Riad al Ghoneimy, Affluence and Poverty in the Middle East (Routledge, 1997)

    Goldberg, Ellis, ed. The Social History of Labor in the Middle East (Westview 1996)

    Khader, Bichara, le partenariat euro-med apres la conference de Barcelone (Paris: Harmattan, 1997)

    Hayes, Sam L & Frank E Vogel, Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk and Return (Kluer Law Intl, 1998)

    Heba Handoussa ed., Economic Transition in the Middle East (AUC Press, 1997)

    Issawi, Charles, The Middle East Economy: Decline and Recovery (Markus Wiener 1996)

    Lavy, Victor, and E. Sheffer, Foreign Aid and Economic Development in the Middle East: Egypt, Syria, and Jordan (NY: Praeger, 1991)

    Lockman, Zakhary, ed., Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East (SUNY 1994)

    Maxfield, Sylvia, Gatekeepers of Growth (Princeton 1997)

    Niblock, Tim, and Emma Murphy eds., Economic and Political Liberalization in the Middle East (London: British Academic Press, 1993)

    Pauly, Louis W., Who Elected the Bankers? Surveillance and Control in the World Economy (Cornell, 1997)

    A. Richards and J. Waterbury, Political Economy of the Middle East , 2nd ed. (Westview, 1996)

    Safadi, Raed, ed., Opening Doors to the World: A New Trade Agenda for the Middle East (AUC Press, 1998)

    Shafik N., Middle East and North Africa 2 vols (St Martins 1998) - useful thematic and country studies

    World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World (NY: Oxford, 1997)

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