... Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Revolutionary Guards Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Nabucco pipeline Mohammad Khatami petroleum Basij unemployment Muhammad Ali Jafari 424 A dramatic shift of economic power has taken place away from traditional pri- vate sector groupings and toward select...

...Selig S. Harrison Growing attention has been devoted in recent years to projected oil and gas pipelines that would link Russian gas fields in eastern Siberia and Sakhalin Island to China, Japan, and the two Koreas. By contrast, there is little awareness of the high economic and political stakes...

... markets in 1999 and especially 2000 likely reflect the effects of ignoring some of these challenges. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California coal deregulation electricity energy FERC Gulf War natural gas petroleum pipeline United...