Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Simon Bromley

Simon Bromley is a senior lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Leeds. He is the author of American Hegemony and World Oil (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991).

MER Article

Oil and the Middle East

The contemporary international political economy of oil presents a puzzle: political instability in regions where oil is found coexists with steadily falling prices. This combination of continuing political conflict and uncertainty in the Middle East (particularly the Gulf), and the continuing slide

Simon Bromley • 13 min read

MER Article

Revisiting the New World Order

Fran Hazelton, ed. Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects for Democracy (London: Zed Books, 1994). Phyllis Bennis and Michel Moushabeck, eds. Altered States: A Reader in the New World Order (New York: Olive Branch Press, 1993). John O’Loughlin, Tom Mayer and Edward S. Greenberg, eds. War and Its Conse

Simon Bromley • 6 min read