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OPEC : The Failing Giant /

A glut of oil, dropping prices, the threat of insolvency, a divided membership -- these developments in the early weeks of 1985 underline the cogency of Mohammed Ahrari's historical study of the OPEC oil cartel and his argument that economic forces, not politics, determine OPEC's action in...

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Autor principal: Ahrari, Mohammed E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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505 0 |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Abbreviations Used; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; The Analytic Approach; Bargaining in Oil Affairs; The Oil Companies and the Host Countries; The Oil Companies and the Oil States; Plan of the Book; 2. The Uncertainties of the Buyers' Market; The Genesis of OPEC; The Institutional and Behavioral Setting; The Initial Challenge; 3. The Making of the Sellers' Market; The Price Negotiations; 4. The World on a Roller Coaster; The Price Negotiations; The Whirlwinds of the Sellers' Market. 
505 0 |a The Participation Agreements5. The Oil Embargo; Background; Imposing the Embargo; 6. Toward an Uncertain Future; The Two-Tier Pricing Agreement; The Calm before the Iranian Turmoil; The Iranian Oil Shortfall; A Continued Drift; OPEC's Widening Window of Vulnerability; Intra-OPEC Tensions; 7. Epilogue; Appendix: Statistical Tables; Glossary; Chronology of Oil-Related Events, 1960-1985; Notes; Index. 
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