San Antonio College Library

Many believe that a final peace between the Arabs and Israel will bring an end to all problems in the Middle East. Maybe that is due to the fact that the Arab-Israeli conflict has dominated much of the discussion about the region over the past fifty years. Consequently, insufficient attention has been devoted to other important elements of instability and conflict faced by Middle Eastern countries, including the autocratic nature of the regimes and...

"The Middle Eastern and North African region (MENA) dominates world energy exports today and will likely do so for decades to come, even if world consumers make steady progress in conservation, renewable energy sources, and increases from gas, coal, and nuclear power. The MENA region, however, has been the scene of birth internal crises and external conflicts. On several occasions, these crises have affected either the flow of MENA energy exports...

"Steve A. Yetiv argues that common assumptions about oil markets are wrong. Although prices remain volatile, Yetiv's account portrays a world market in petroleum products far more benign and predictable than the one to which we are accustomed. In Crude Awakenings, he identifies and analyzes real and potential threats to the global energy supply, including wars, revolutions, coups, dangerous alliances, oil embargoes, Islamic radicalism, and transnational...