The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century

The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

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The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

by Giuliano Garavini
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Book Overview

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 the
limits 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 and
early- 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, and
Iran 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 of
these natural resources.
ISBN9780198832836
Author Giuliano Garavini
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreHistory and Business
FormatHardcover
PublishedSeptember 2019
LanguageENG- English
Pages436
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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