Giuliano Garavini
Visiting Scholar
Education: PhD, University of Florence
Research Areas: European integration, decolonization, and the Global South, the history of energy and petroleum
About Giuliano
Giuliano Garavini teaches International History at Roma Tre University in Rome.
He has mainly written about European integration, decolonization and the Global South, the history of energy and natural resources. He has taught and received fellowships in various institutions including the European University Institute (EUI), the Graduate Institute in Geneva, the University of Bologna and the University of Padua, and has been a Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities at NYUAD where he left his collection of OPEC archives.
He is the author among others of After Empires. European Integration, Decolonization and the Challenge from the Global South, 1957-1986 (OUP, 2012) and has co-edited Oil Shock. The 1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacy (IB Tauris, 2017), and Counter-Shock. The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s (IB Tauris, 2019).
His latest book is The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the 20th Century (OUP, 2019).
Publications
Books
Garavini, Giuliano. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Basosi, Duccio, Giuliano Garavini, and Massimiliano Trentin, eds. Counter-shock: The Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s. I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Bini, Elisabetta, Giuliano Garavini, and Federico Romero, eds. Oil shock: The 1973 crisis and its economic legacy. I.B. Tauris, 2016.
Beltran, Alain, Éric Bussière, and Giuliano Garavini, eds. L'Europe et la question énergétique. Les années 1960/1980. Peter Lang B, 2016.
Journals
Garavini, Giuliano. “From Boumedienomics to Reaganomics: Algeria, OPEC, and the International Struggle for Economic Equality.” Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development 6, no. 1 (2015): 79-92.
Book Chapters
Giuliano, Garavini. “Western Europe and the Long Energy Crisis of the 1970s.” In Europe in a Globalizing World: Global Challenges and European Responses in the ‘long’ 1970s, ed. Claudia Hiepel, 147-164. Nomos, 2014.
Roundtable
Giuliano Garavini, "H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-14 on Garavini. The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century," in H-Diplo (H-Net, 2020).
Interview
“OPEC: A History of Petroleum”
In the News
Giuliano Garavini's book is a corrective to Western-centric accounts of the organisation, and a rare insight into international diplomacy at work.
As it turns 60 Opec needs to adapt to navigate the transition of energy resources
The oil crises has sowed the seeds of modern renewable energy, efficiency, and energy policy, while halting the post-war paradigm of environmentally unsustainable breakneck growth.
The National | September 14, 2020
Responding Locally to Global Problems
Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi are trying to determine how climate change will affect humanity’s collective future and how to better understand changes that are taking place.`
April 18, 2016
Resident Expert: The Untold Story of OPEC
Will the world always need oil and is it true that we're running out? Are oil-rich nations like the UAE victims of the so-called oil curse? Senior Research Fellow Giuliano Garavini answers these and other tough questions as he explores the untold past and uncertain future of OPEC.
March 12, 2016