石油メジャーをめぐる先行研究

Sampson, Anthony. The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies and the World They Shaped. New York: Viking Press, 1975.

Burton I. Kaufman, The Oil Cartel Case: A Documentary Study of Antitrust Activity in the Cold War Era, Greenwood Press 1978

The History of the British Petroleum Company, Vol. 2: The Anglo-Iranian Years, 1928-1954, Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Irene L. Gendzier, Notes from the Minefield: United States Intervention in Lebanon and the Middle East, 1945-1958, Westview Press; New Ed edition, 1998