The OECD oil Committee and the international search for reinforced energy-consumer cooperation (1972–1973)

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Abstract

This chapter concentrates on the incapacity of the energy-consumer countries to produce effective cooperation in the period 1972–73. It is interesting that, despite this failure, in mid-December 1973 the American initiative for improved international cooperation in energy was renewed with far more success. In general, it has been understood as a direct consequence of the 1973 oil shock. Its longer term origins, however, have often been overlooked. Kissinger’s proposition in December 1973 had not been the first serious call for an improved cooperation of energy-consumer countries. As a matter of fact, the theme was already on the international agenda since at least a year and a half and steps had already been made for its realisation. The oil shock and the linked international economic problems were thus not the sole factors which played a role in the creation of the IEA. It is therefore the ambition of this chapter to fill in some blank spots in our understanding of this process.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOil Shock
Subtitle of host publicationThe 1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacy
EditorsElisabeth Bini, Guiliano Garavini, Federico Romero
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherI.B. Tauris
Pages142-171
Number of pages30
ISBN (Electronic)9780857729583
ISBN (Print)9781784535568
Publication statusPublished - 30 Apr 2016

Publication series

NameInternational library of twentieth century history
Volume88

Keywords

  • OECD
  • International energy Agency
  • OECD Oil Committee
  • Oil
  • Energy
  • Oil shock 1973
  • US energy policy
  • European energy policy

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