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Middle Eastern politics and oil

On a wintry 4 February 2009, Sir Mark Allen, one of the world’s leading Arabists and a special adviser for BP, gave the third in the series of ‘Politics and Energy’ lectures, at the Royal United Services Institute in London.

• Mark Allen

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Published in British Academy Review, Issue 13 (June 2009).

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