Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 43

25-October-2004

Libyas Energy Outlook

By Jawdat Bahgat

The following article was written for MEES by Dr Bahgat, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and author of American Oil Diplomacy in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea.

In late December 2003 the Libyan Government announced its decision to eliminate materials, equipments and programs which lead to the production of internationally proscribed weapons....