Oil and the Middle East: The end of US hegemony?

Middle East Report

Volumn 28, Issue 208, 1998, Pages 19-22

  Bromley, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOPOLITICS; HEGEMONY; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; OIL MARKET; POLITICAL ECONOMY; POST-COLD WAR;

MIDDLE EAST; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031754958     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3013404     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. See American Hegemony and World Oil (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991), chapter 6.
2. Robert Vitalis, "The Closing of the Arabian Oil Frontier and the Future of Saudi-American Relations," Middle East Report 204 (Summer 1997).
3. Robert Vitalis, Middle East Report Ibid, p.19.
4. Robert Vitalis, Middle East Report Ibid, p.16.
5. Robert Vitalis, Middle East Report Ibid., p.20.
6. Some of this was anticipated in American Hegemony and World Oil but I did not foresee anything like its full effects, and it is probably still too early to do so.
7. For a thoughtful reflection on these questions, see Ronald Steel, Temptations of a Superpower (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995).
8. J.E. Hartshorn, Oil Trade: Politics and Prospects (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p.66.
9. For an authoritative analysis of the post-OPEC oil industry through to the early 1990s, see J.E. Hartshorn, Oil Trade: Politics and Prospects ( 1993), p.66. ibid.
10. For a full analysis, see American Hegemony and World Oil, chapter 4.
11. For the best account see Ian Skeet, OPEC: Twenty-five Years of Prices and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
12. Also helpful on OPEC is Pierre Terzian, OPEC: The Inside Story (London: Zed Press, 1985).