The editor presents a series of essays which form a unique vision of the economic ties between the U.S. and the Arab world. Using selected papers from a conference held by the Georgetown National Center for Export-Import Studies, Czinkota brings together the views of business persons, policymakers, and academics from both the Arab countries and the United States. This is the first effort to integrate these various points of view on such topics as: trends in trade relations, the future of oil, and banking relations between the U.S. and the Arab oil producing nations.