First published 1976 by Westview Press, Inc.

The Middle EAst and the industrial world / J.C.Hurewitz -- US international leadership / Lawrence Scheinman -- Canada's quest for Energy Autarky / Ted Greenwood -- Western Europe: the politics of muddling through / Wolfgang Hager -- Japan's long-term vulnerabilities / Masao Sakisaka -- Access to oil / Melvin A. Conant -- American interest groups after October 1973 / Robert H. Trice -- Canada: evenhanded ambiguity / Janice Gross Stein -- The strategy of avoidance: Europ's Middle East policies after the October War / Hans Maull -- Japan's tilting neutrality / Kazushige Hirasawa -- Petrodollars, arms trade, and the pattern of major conflicts / Paul Jabber -- The abiding threat of war: perspectives in Israel / Yair Evron -- Patterns of Middle East politics in the coming decade / Ian Smart -- Mixing oil and money / Benjamin J. Cohen -- Resource transfers to the developing world / Guy F. Erb and Helen C. Low -- Changing financial institutions in the Arab oil states / T. T. McHale -- The international energy agency: the political context / Wilfrid L. Kohl -- Japan's energy-security dilemma / Kiichi Saeki -- Energy and economic growth / William D. Nordhaus -- The pervasive crisis / J. C Hurewitz -- Notes -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index