PURCHASE
book Series: 
IPS Papers
U.S. Threats of Intervention Against Arab Oil: 1973-1979
Author: 
Marwan R. Buheiry
Publisher: 
Institute for Palestine Studies
Publication Year: 
1980
Language: 
English
Number of Pages: 
71
Abstract

This paper addresses U.S. policy in the Middle East and threats of military incursion into the Arab oil fields, during the terms of U.S. Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter from 1973 to 1979. It sheds light on the purpose of the threats, their timing, the discussions surrounding them in U.S. political circles, and the responses of the Arab countries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marwan R. Buheiry (1934-1986) taught at the American University of Beirut and was a research fellow at the IPS, Beirut. He was the founder and first director of the Center of Lebanese Studies at Oxford in the U.K.