Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century

Name: Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century
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By Giuliano Garavini

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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is one of the most recognizable acronyms among international organizations. It is mainly associated with the 'oil shock' of 1973 when prices of petroleum quadrupled and industrialized countries and consumers were forced to face thelimits of their development model. This is the first history of OPEC and of its members written by a professional historian. It carries the reader from the formation of the first petrostate in the world, Venezuela in the late 1920s, to the global ascent of petrostates and OPEC during the 1970s, to their crisis in the late-1980s andearly- 1990s. Formed in 1960, OPEC was the first international organization of the Global South. It was perceived as acting as the economic 'spearhead' of the Global South and acquired a role that went far beyond the realm of oil politics. Petrostates such as Venezuela, Nigeria, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, andIran were (and continue to be) key regional actors, and their enduring cooperation, defying wide political and cultural differences and even wars, speaks to the centrality of natural resources in the history of the twentieth century, and to the underlying conflict between producers and consumers ofthese natural resources.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 436
Release Date:: 2019-09-04
Publication Date:: 2019-09-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press(UK)
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0198832834
ISBN13:: 9780198832836
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 816 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 28 cm

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