The Nationalization of the Iraqi Petroleum Company

1979/02/01 by Michael E. Brown
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Natural Resources and Economic Development

paper · doi:10.1017/s0020743800053356

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Abstract

One of the more important developments in Iraq since the 1958 overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy was the nationalization of the Iraqi Petroleum Company on 1 June 1972. The nationalization of the IPC was the culmination of a long-standing power struggle between the IPC and the Iraqi government. This analysis is concerned with that power struggle and the consequent nationalization of the IPC.

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