1. Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa: State, Oil and Agriculture Part I: Boundaries and the State
2. Back to 1975 and All That: Linking the Technicalities and Underlying Dynamics of Iraq’s Border Disputes at the Head of the Persian Gulf 3. A Border that has Defied Unification
4. A Geopolitical Perspective of Boundary Change and Buffer Function in Jordan, 1920?1994 5. Can Insecure States Achieve Secure Borders? The Continuing Search for Security in the Evolution of Modern South Asia’s States 6. Boundary Delimitation: The Role of History Part II: Oil and Iran
7. The Geopolitics of Energy Security: a Brief History 8. A Failure of Imagination? Britain, ‘The Narrative of Liberalisation’ and the Fall of the Shah 9. The International Oil Companies and Iran: A Classic Love?Hate Relationship Part III: Agriculture and Water
10. Agriculture in MENA Rentier Economies: Coping with Extremely Unstable Revenues and the Arrival of Revolutionary Regimes in Libya and Iran 11. Water and Agriculture in Iraq’s Euphrates Valley: The Challenges 12. An Afghan Shepherd’s Life