Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 41

11-October-2004

Iraq, Democracy And Oil

By Francisco Parra

The following article was written for MEES by Francisco Parra, a former OPEC Secretary-General and author of Oil Politics: A Modern History of Petroleum (IB Tauris, 2004, distributed in the US by Palgrave-Macmillan).

Can Iraq, under Prime Minister Ayad 'Allawi and American tutelage backed by US armed forces, make the great leap to democracy? It is a critical question for Iraq and the Iraqi people....