Steve LeVine

Steve LeVine of "The Oil and the Glory" blog at Foreign Policy, and Dan Dicker author of Oil's Endless Bid: Taming the Unreliable Price of Oil to Secure Our Economy, discuss the unrest in the Middle East and its relationship to the soaring price of oil and the rising price of gas.

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I think the US is going to everything it can to keep a distance on many levels... It doesn’t want to have the image of an outside force causing the disruption in any of these countrie...

Steve Levine who runs "The Oil and the Glory" blog at Foreign Policy, talks about the U.S. relationship with Bahrain in light of the unrest there and in the Middle East region. Plus Lauren Vriens, a Fulbright scholar studying in Bahrain calls in to update us on the situation there.

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Find out how the oil industry benefited from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992…and what that means for Central Asia today. Wall Street Journal correspondent Steven LeVine’s new book is The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea.

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