A number of countries joined OPEC after the founding five. Qatar, before it was even fully independent. Indonesia first under the Revolutionary Sukarno and then continuing under the reactionary suharto. Libya most consequently after Gaddafi took power in 69. revolutionary Algeria,. independent Nigeria and also Ecuador and later years other countries too.
Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The second in a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world system.
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