Giuliano Garavini teaches international history at Roma Tre University in Rome. Professor Claes has published studies of oil-producer cooperation, conflict and cooperation in oil and gas markets, Arctic oil and gas, the energy relations between Norway and the European Union, and the role of oil in Middle East conflicts. He is a former Research Fellow of the Fridtjof Nansen Institute and Senior Research Fellow in the ARENA program at the University of Oslo.
Dag Harald Claes is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. The final section, Part IV, looks at OPEC and the governance of international energy.
Part II examines the relationship between OPEC and its customers, the consuming countries and their governments, while Part III addresses the relationship between OPEC and its competitors and potential partners, the non-OPEC producers, and the international oil companies. Part I focuses on the relationship between OPEC and its member states. This handbook, with chapters provided by scholars and analysts from different backgrounds and specializations, discusses and analyzes the history and development of OPEC, its global importance, and the role it has played, and still plays, in the global energy market.
The organization has undergone decades of changing importance, from political irrelevance to the spotlight of world attention and back and from economic boom for its members to deep political and financial crisis. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020, is one of the most recognizable acronyms in international politics. Handbook of OPEC and the Global Energy Order What role for OPEC in the last generation of oil? OPEC – from peak to peak: The history of ‘peak oil’ and its relevance for OPECĢ8. OPEC and the financialization of the oil marketĢ7. When modern terrorism began: The OPEC hostage taking of 1975Ģ5. OPEC’s struggle for international recognition (1960–1965): How a denied seat agreement in Switzerland influenced the early development of OPECĢ4. The road not taken: Frank Hendryx and the proposal to restructure petroleum concessions in the Middle East Aater the Venezuelan patternĢ3. Beyond the Texas Railroad Commission: Thirty years of American precedent for OPECĢ2. PART IV: OPEC and international energy governanceĢ1.
OPEC and Russia: A happy pro forma marriage Taking a leaf out of OPEC’s book?: The significance of developing producer country models for state involvement in North Sea oil productionĢ0. From foes to friends: The relationship between OPEC and Norwayġ9. Between the superpower and Third Worldism: Mexico and OPEC (1974–1982)ġ8. Consumer countries, producer countries, and the oil industry: Italy’s role in the evolution of oil contracts (1955–1975)ġ7. Ignoring, countering and undercutting OPEC: Britain, BP, Shell and the shifting global energy order (1960–1986)ġ6. The changing relationship between OPEC countries and international oil companies: The dynamics of bargaining power in an evolving marketġ5. PART III: OPEC, non-OPEC and the international oil companiesġ4. The European communities and OPEC: From entangled international organizations to liberalism (1960s–1980s) China and OPEC: From ideological support to economic cooperationġ3. How OPEC made the G7: Western coordination in the wake of the ‘oil shock’ġ2. Talking about OPEC without talking to OPEC?: The (non-)relationship between the International Energy Agency and OPEC 1974–1990ġ0. Be prepared!: Emergency stockpiles of oil among Western consumer countries prior to the International Energy Agency systemĩ. Nigeria and the uncertain future of the oil marketĨ. From norm entrepreneur to reluctant overachiever: Venezuela in the history of OPECħ. Trade not aid: OPEC and its contribution towards restructuring the Iranian economy in the 1960sĦ. Saudi Arabia’s role in OPEC’s evolution: OPEC and the global energy order from its origins to the present timeĤ. Oilmen, Petroleum Arabism and OPEC: New political and public cultures of oil in the Arab world, 1959–1964ģ. OPEC and the global energy order: Past, present and future challengesĢ.