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Historical Note

Daedalus is the quarterly journal of the American �鶹��ý��վ. In 1975, Daedalus published an issue titled “The Oil Crisis: In Perspective". This issue examined the geopolitical, economic, and strategic causes and consequences of the contemporaneous international energy crisis precipitated by the Arab-Israeli War in October 1973. Principal actors in the creation of this issue include Editor of the �鶹��ý��վ and of Daedalus Stephen R. Graubard and Guest Editor Raymond Vernon, Director of the Center for International Affairs, and Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Business Management at Harvard University.

Two conferences were held in association with this publication. The first conference was a regularly scheduled meeting of the Daedalus planning committee, organized at the Center for International Affairs in Cambridge, March 1974. A much larger conference took place in Turin, Italy from January 13-15, 1975. This second conference provided an opportunity for peer review and discussion of the commissioned articles to be published in the Fall 1975 issue.

Scope and Content

These records consist of correspondence, administrative papers, editorial drafts, and conference proceedings. Correspondence is primarily between Daedalus Editor, Stephen Graubard, and authors. Administrative papers include financial and hospitality statements. Editorial drafts included detailed revisions of accepted articles. Topics covered range from the economic and political backgrounds of the oil crisis to an international overview of contemporary energy markets and their actors.

Of particular note are draft copies by authors, written both before conferences, and edited after their completion. No conference proceedings exist for the first conference, however seemingly incomplete copies of the second exist.  For this reason, administrative planning records for this first conference are of particular importance.

Arrangement

Processing for this series utilized “More Product, Less Process” (MPLP) principles: thus, minimal preservation steps were taken and folder titles listed in the finding aid are as they appeared on the original folders. Where lacking, folder titles and dates have been ascribed in brackets. 
This series is divided into three Subseries: Subseries 1: Administrative Records, 1972-1976; Subseries 2: Conferences, 1973-1975; and Subseries 3: Authors, 1974-1975. 
Subseries 1 is arranged chronologically, Subseries 3 is arranged Alphabetically. Subseries 2 is further broken down into two sub-subseries by conference: Sub-subseries 2.1: 1974, Harvard Conference, 1974; and Sub-subseries 2.2: 1975 Turin Conference. Both are arranged chronologically.

Processing Information

Processed by Liam O'Keefe, Simmons SLIS Intern, Fall 2019. 

Volume

2 records center cartons (2 linear feet)

Preferred Citation

[Item title, date]. Record Group XVIII: Publications: Editorial Records: Daedalus: The Oil Crisis: In Perspective (Vol. 104, No. 4, Fall, 1975). Archives, American �鶹��ý��վ of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Subject

Arab-Israeli Conflict
Economics
Geopolitics
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Petroleum

Daedalus (Boston, Mass.)
Graubard, Stephen Richard
Vernon, Raymond, 1913-1999