The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century

David Wight, H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online This point, however, only underscores the richness of Garavini's book; it delivers even more than it claims to offer. Garavini does not deny that oil and the wealth derived from it have sometimes facilitated destructive decisions by the members of OPEC. But he balances this common narrative of dysfunctional petrostates with a well-researched and -reasoned historical account demonstrating that petrostates have also been unsung champions of redressing global economic inequality and environmental degradation. The Rise and Fall of OPEC is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the global impacts of oil and the role of the Global South in shaping its use during the twentieth century.

Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs Garavini's rich history starts with the emergence of petroleum-producing countries in the 1920s and covers the establishment of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in the 1960s, the oil shocks of the 1970s, and OPEC's declining ability to control prices in the 1980s and 1990s ... Although Garavini's account ends at the turn of the twenty-first century, many of the themes he sounds are strikingly contemporary: tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia, dysfunction in Venezuela, and the need for oil-producing and oil-consuming countries to think about the coming transition to a global economy that no longer relies on fossil fuels.

Simon C. Smith, Journal of Modern History Despite the international importance that it achieved, especially in the 1970s, the Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OEPC) has been relatively neglected in terms of serious scholarship. Giuliano Garavini's monumental study goes a long way to rectify this omission ... Garavini has provided a highly readable account that will be of interest not merely to economic historians but also scholars of diplomacy and international relations.

Edoardo Campanella, Project Syndacate offers a refreshing account of an organization that has managed to adapt to radically.

Victor Mc Farland, Environmental History Based on extensive multilingual research, including sources that were previously inaccessible to historians, this book is the best history of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) yet published.

Rdiger Graf, ARO a well-needed and important contribution to the growing body of literature on the history of oil and energy that aims to transcend the confines of an American and European perspective.

Per Hgselius, The Journal of European Economic History It is rare to see a book on oil history that takes on the challenge of developing a truly global analysis while at the same time going into local depth when it comes to the oil histories of individual countries.

Survival: Global Politics and Strategy The author traces the history and influence of OPEC from its for-mation to its downfall in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Giuliano Garavini teaches International History at Roma Tre University in Rome. His main research interests include European integration, decolonization, and global struggles over natural resources. He has taught classes at various universities and institutions, including the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the European University Institute in Florence, and NYU Abu Dhabi. He has published on the interconnection between European integration and decolonization (After Empires, 2012), and on the global history of petroleum and of energy, in particular on the origins and significance of the 1973 'oil shock' (Oil Shock: The 1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacy, 2016) and on the 'counter-shock' in 1986 (Counter-Shock: The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s, 2018).

Introduction 1: Fifty-Fifty 2: OPEC 3: Petromodernization 4: The Energy Crisis 5: The Oil Revolution 6: Uneasy Dialogue 7: The Failed Cartel Epilogue: The Crisis of the Petrostate