Abstract
In Halliday's text I distinguished three main points of interest, with respect to the interactions between politics and economy. His approach underlines that the Middle East crisis lies in the political economy is all the more interesting, since in France the mainstream popular view considers that Middle east difficulties come from culture (especially Islam) and the impact of western societies (promotion of underdevelopment, negative role of colonialism, neo-imperialism). Though Halliday gives some credit to these explanations, he emphasizes the fact that the crisis stems first of all from internal factors in Middle East societies and states.
