World Challenge: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the New Global Order Servan-Schreiber, Jean-Jacques

When OPEC flexed its economic muscle in the 1970s, the world order shifted overnight. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber — French journalist, politician, and author of the international bestseller *The American Challenge* — unpacks how a cartel of oil-producing nations rewrote the rules of global power. This isn't dry economics; it's a geopolitical thriller in paperback form. Servan-Schreiber traces how resource control became the ultimate leverage, how Western industrial dominance cracked under pressure, and what it meant for everyone from Detroit automakers to developing nations. Written in the immediate aftermath of the oil shocks, it captures the panic, the recalibration, and the dawning realization that energy is destiny. A time capsule of Cold War-era economics with uncomfortable relevance today. For readers fascinated by how the world actually works — the power plays, the resource wars, the hidden architecture of international relations.