Bibliography On The Politics of Middle East Oil

 

Economic Facts About Oil in the Middle East:

1.      U. S. Energy Information Administration, “Persian Gulf Oil and Gas Exports Fact Sheet,” http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/pgulf.html

2.      Oil and Gas Journal, printed journal and http://orc.pennnet.com/home.cfm

3.      BP Amoco: http://www.bp.com/index.asp

 

Political Viewpoints: U. S. Policy Insiders:

1.                  William Cohen, Report of the Secretary of Defense, Chapter 1, U.S. Defense Strategy, Department of Defense, Washington, D. C., 2000

2.                  PBS Frontline interview with Richard Armitage, U. S. Assistant Secretary of State, September, 2001 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/terrorism/interviews/armitage.htm

3.                  Zbigniew Brzezinski , Brent Scowcroft, and Richard Murphy, "Differentiated Containment," Foreign Affairs, May/June, 1997

4.                  Anthony H. Cordesman, The Gulf and Transition: US Policy Ten Years After the Gulf War, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2000, http://www.csis.org/gulf/reports/execsum&policyrecs.PDF

 

Political Viewpoints: Critics of U. S. Policy:

1.                  Progressive South Asian Organizations, Resource Page:

                   http://www.proxsa.org/resources/9-11/index.html

2.                   Middle East Realities: http://www.middleeast.org/mernew.htm

3.                   Nina Burleigh, "Missing the Oil Story," http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/10/11/index.html

4.                  "A ‘Crusade’ for Exxon-Mobil Oil Empire, " Challenge Newspaper, http://www.plp.org/misc/exxonwtc100101.html

5.                  John Pilger, articles in the Guardian and New Statesman Newspapers http://pilger.carlton.com/print

 

Other Sources:

      Middle East News Online: http://www.middleeastwire.com/gulf/

 

Afghanistan and Central Asia Specifically:

1.                  James Dorian, "Oil, gas in FSU [the former Soviet Union] Central Asia, northwestern China await development," Oil and Gas Journal, Sept. 10, 2001.

2.                  Ahmed Rashid, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale University Press, 2001.

3.                  George Monbiot, “America's Pipe Dream: The war against terrorism is also a struggle for oil and regional control,:  Guardian Newspaper, Oct. 23, 2001, http://tomweston.net/pipedream.htm

 

History of Oil and U. S. Policy:

D. Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, Touchstone Books, New York, 1992.