The Gulf Co-operation Council: The Emergence of an Institution

Sayed Hassan Amin. Political and Strategic Issues in the Gulf (Glasgow : Royston, 1984), p. 66.

Robert Lacey , The Kingdom (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1981), p. 379.

Shahram Chubin , Security in the Persian Gulf: The Role of Outside Powers (Aldershot : Gower, 1981), p. 154.

Robert Litwak , Security in the Persian Gulf: Sources of Inter-state Conflict ( Aldershot: Gower, 1981), p. 6.

Atif A. Kubursi , Oil, Industrialization and Development in the Arab Gulf States ( London: Croom Helm, 1984), pp. 23-4.

Shahram Chubin (ed.), Security in the Persian Gulf: Domestic Political Factors (Aldershot Gower, 1981), p. 70.

Ibid., p. 81.

Atif A. Kubursi , op. cit., p. 38.

Shahram Chubin , The Role of Outside Powers, op. cit., p. 201.

Atif A. Kubursi , op. cit., p. 34.

Anthony H. Cordesman , The Gulf and the Search for Strategic Stability ( London : Westview Press. 1984), p. 27.

Ibid., p. 34.

Ibid., p. 164.

William B. Quandt , Saudi Arabia's Oil Policy ( Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1982). pp. 19-20.

Anthony H. Cordesman , op. cit., p- 262.

Ibid., pp. 514-16.

Ibid., p. 397.

See in particular, Anthony H. Cordesman , op. cit.; Thomas L. McNaughter , Arms and Oil (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1985); Security in the Persian Gulf (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1981), all volumes, particularly Shahmm Chubin, The Role of Outside Powers.

See in particular: Hassan Ali Al-Ebraheem , Kuwait and the Gulf ( London: Croom Helm. 1984) and Atif A. Kurbursi , op. cit

It should be noted that the West still views the Soviet Union as a threat to the region.

Valerie York and Louis Turner , European Interests and Gulf Oil (Aldershot: Gower, 1986 ).

Shaul Bakhash , The Reign of the Ayatollahs ( London: I.B. Tauris, 1985), p. 250.

The Wall Street Journal 9 December 1985

OPEC Annual Report, 1984.

Middle East Economic Digest, 23-29 November 1985.

Valerie York and Louis Turner , op. cit, pp 69-70; and private conversations with various international bankers specialising in the region.

Preamble of the Unified Economic Agreement Among the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.

John F. Mugno , 'Business Strategies for an Oil Market in Surplus', speech delivered to the Energy Bureau, Houston, Texas, 26 February 1986; and private conversation with David A. Warner, Vice President, Mobil Oil Corporation, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.