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The Rise of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini

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The 1930s: A Time of State Intervention

The Roosevelt administration considered taking a direct state stake in Saudi oil. It's a really strange and interesting window into a sort of new deal inflected empire building. But it didn't happen thanks to business opposition. How did the US role in Saudi Arabia shape and reflect the US's emergence as a global hegemon?

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