1st Edition

Strategic Implications Of The New Oil Reality

By Shemuel Meir Copyright 1987
    110 Pages
    by Routledge

    110 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1986. The oil crises of the 1970s and the shockwaves they sent throughout the industrialized countries and the Third World, appeared at one point to be ushering in an "Arab Century." But the first half of the 1980s produced a radically different oil reality. The price of oil dropped from over $34 per barrel in l980 to under

    Summary -- Introduction: The Issues -- The International Oil Market: A General Overview -- The Regional View: The Impact of a Worldwide Oil Surplus on the Middle East -- Strategic Implications for the Israel-Arab Conflict -- Strategy and Economics: Israel and the West -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Appendix IV -- Appendix V -- Appendix VI -- Appendix VII -- JCSS Publications -- The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies Recent Publications in English

    Biography

    Shemuel Meir