Shigeru Akita is Professor of Global history at Osaka University, Japan. He is the editor of American Empire in Global History (2022) and co-editor with G. Krozewski and Shoichi Watanabe of The Transformation of the International Order of Asia (2015).

• Introduction, Shigeru Akita (Osaka University, Japan)Part I: Oil Diplomacy and the Cold War1. The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Cold War, David Painter (Georgetown University, USA)2. The Oil Crises as Fulcrum for the Rise and Fall of the Third World Project, Dane Kennedy (George Washington University, USA) 3. The Cold War, the 1970s, and the Role of the Asian Development Bank in Southeast Asia , Hideki Kan (Osaka University, Japan)Part II: Transformation of International Development Financing4. Privatisation of International Development Financing: Oil-money, Emerging Euro-dollar Market and Developing Countries in the 1970s, Ikuto Yamaguchi (Nara University, Japan) 5. Economic Development through Oil in Malaysia and Singapore: Increased State Capacity and Formation of the East Asian Oil Triangle, Shigeru Sato (Tohoku-Gakuin University, Japan)6. The 1970s macrocycle: Eurodollars, petrodollars, credit booms and debt busts, 1973–1982, Mark Metzler (University of Washington, USA)Part III: The Cold War, Development and Aid—Asia and Africa7. Oil for the Lamps of America? Sino-American Oil Diplomacy, 1973—1979, Kazushi Minami (Osaka University, Japan)8. “Green Revolution” in India, the World Bank and the Oil Crises: Focusing on Chemical Fertilizer Problems, Shigeru Akita (Osaka University, Japan) 9. Ghana and Kenya facing the 1970s commodity price shocks: the local and the global, Gareth Austin (University of Cambridge, UK) Bibliography Notes