Powder Keg in the Middle East: The Struggle for Gulf Security

by Geoffrey Kemp and Janice Stein

Book Overview

The Persian Gulf continues to be a region of critical importance to the United States and the industrial world. Its oil and natural gas resources are, if anything, more important today than they were in the 1970s when the energy crisis emerged as a dominant feature of the international landscape. Yet despite the allied victory in Desert Storm, the Gulf remains dangerous because the underlying sources of conflict in the region remain unresolved. Powder...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847680754
• ISBN13: 9780847680757
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 306 Pages