Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 24

14-June-2004

PUBLICATION RECEIVED

Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum, by Francisco Parra, published by I B Tauris, London, and distributed in the US by Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004. 364pp, indexed ISBN 1 86064 977 7.

In this book, Francisco Parra, drawing on his long and varied experience in international oil, sets out the events that have shaped the industry over the past 50 years the displacement of coal as the worlds prime fuel; the tight...