1. "Third World Urged to Cut Imports," Daily News, January1,1983. I will be using the term "Third World" throughout this article because it was the term used by the historical actors I am writing about. This is not to gloss over the problematic nature of the term and all terms used to collectively identify this economic bloc ("Global South," "developing world"). However, it was also a term that captured the emancipatory potential of the postcolonial world to join together and remake global power relations.
2. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century