Oil in the Middle East

George Lenczowski is a member of the Political Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley. A resident of the Middle East between 1938 and 1945, he has been revisiting the area every year since 1955. His books include Russia and the West in Iran, The Middle East in World Affairs, and the recently published Oil and State in the Middle East. He is also the author of “Political Institutions of the Middle East,” in the collective volume Mid-East: World Center (R. N. Anshen, ed.).