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Pipeline Politics: America, Tapline, and the Arabs

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The Arabian American Oil Company's plan to build a pipe-line from eastern Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean seemed to many an ideal project for business-government cooperation. A sound business project for the company would give American policymakers more and cheaper oil to aid plans to rebuild Western Europe, as well as a significant presence in the Middle East. Events in that tumultuous region, however, soon embroiled both the company and the U.S. government in a more complex relationship than had been envisioned. © 1990, The President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved.

Publication Title

Business History Review

Publication Date

1990

Volume

64

Issue

2

First Page

255

Last Page

285

ISSN

0007-6805

DOI

10.2307/3115583

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