Dienstag, 03. Oktober 2023, 18:00 - 19:30 iCal
Guest lecture with Prof. David S. Painter, PhD Geo
THE OIL CRISIS OF THE 1970S AND
THE ORIGINS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Universität Wien, Hauptgebäude, 1. Stock, Stiege 10, Seminarraum Geschichte 1
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
Forschungsschwerpunkt Globalgeschichte
Fifty years ago, the oil shock of 1973-74 set in motion the transformation of the international order. Disruptions in oil production and distribution in 1973-74 and again in 1978-80 led to sharp increases in oil prices, the restructuring of the global energy system – with environmental as well as economic and political consequences –, the end of the “golden age” of economic growth, and the creation of a privatized international financial order. Although the oil crises reflected and intensified the larger crisis of US/Western hegemony in the 1970s, they also contributed to the long-term conditions that led to the collapse of communism and the reassertion of Western dominance in the Global South during the 1980s. Drawing on decades of research on these issues, David Painter argues that understanding the causes and consequences of the oil crises is crucial to dealing effectively with the challenges facing the world today.
David S. Painter is associate professor emeritus of international history at Georgetown University and a former guest professor at the University of Vienna. Among others, he is the author of The Cold War: An International History and Oil and the American Century: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign Oil Policy, 1941–1954. His most recent book is (with Gregory Brew) The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951–1954.
Chair: Christian De Vito, from October Professor of Global History at the Department of Economic and Social History and Co-Speaker of the Faculty’s Research Focus Global History
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Kontakt
Thomas Angerer
Institut für Geschichte
0043 1 4277 40801
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Erstellt am Mittwoch, 20. September 2023, 16:20
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 09. Oktober 2023, 08:25