This book focuses on the principal unresolved issues of the energy crisis, the Arab-Israel dispute, and their tangled effects that feed back to and feed upon relations with the North Atlantic countries and Japan.

Professor J. C. Hurewitz is the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia University.

Preface -- The Middle East and the Industrial World -- National Responses to the Energy Crisis -- US International Leadership -- Canada's Quest for Energy Autarky -- Western Europe: The Politics of Muddling Through -- Japan's Long-Term Vulnerabilities -- Access to Oil -- Changing National Perspectives on the Arab-Israel Dispute -- American Interest Groups after October 1973 -- Canada: Evenhanded Ambiguity -- The Strategy of Avoidance: Europe's Middle East Policies after the October War -- Japan's Tilting Neutrality -- Oil and Politics in the Middle East -- Petrodollars, Arms Trade, and the Pattern of Major Conflicts -- The Abiding Threat of War: Perspectives in Israel -- Patterns of Middle East Politics in the Coming Decade -- Future Challenge -- Mixing Oil and Money -- Resource Transfers to the Developing World -- Changing Financial Institutions in the Arab Oil States -- The International Energy Agency: The Political Context -- Japan's Energy-Security Dilemma -- Energy and Economic Growth -- The Pervasive Crisis