World politics and international energy markets

International Organization, 1987

The decade of the 1970s was a time of dramatic turbulence in the world political economy. Monetary relations, arms control, trade exchanges, and other issue-areas experienced concentrated and politically salient changes that resulted in considerable economic wins and losses for different actors in the international system.

In its suddenness, scope, and tremendous costs, the “energy crisis” epitomizes this difficult decade of the 1970s. Read More »