Monthly Archives: January 1991

1991: “Power Projection in the Middle East”

In 1991, a book was published containing a chapter by Sheila:

Mobilizing Democracy: Changing the U. S. Role in the Middle East

“Power Projection in the Middle East”, by Sheila Ryan, in Greg Bates, ed., Mobilizing Democracy: Changing the U. S. Role in the Middle East (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1991).

According to Publishers Weekly,

Sheila Ryan concludes that after 45 years of a Middle East policy based on anti-Soviet “containment,” the U.S. is now guided by its determination to control Europe’s and Japan’s source of oil.

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