Content area
Full Text
Available from: Monthly Review Press, 122 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001. www.monthlyreview.org
This book was originally published as two special issues of Aspects of India's Economy, an economics journal published in India. The authors give a perspective of the imminent (earlier this spring, when the book was written) invasion of Iraq, with a solid background of the events leading up to the 1991 war and the current conflict in Iraq. This book is particularly valuable because the authors are close enough to the events to understand their implications, while far enough away to provide a broad perspective for the region.
The book begins with a historical background of the region, laying out the past relations of the "Great Powers" to this oil-rich area. The 20th century has been, more or less,...