مباحثات الحكومة العراقية مع شركة إيراب الفرنسية 1959-1963 : دراسة تاريخية

الملخص EN

This study aims at shedding light on an important issue of the history of contemporary Iraq, namely the talks of the Iraqi government with the French company ERAB for the period of )9191-9191(.

ERAB is a multinational company which had the right to extract oil in Iraq with other forigon companies.

These companies had depleted economy of Iraq through controling the main source of economy which is oil, especially those companies (including ERAB) totally contolled economics of the developing countries, including Iraq.

This research attempted to shed light on the official talks between the Iraqi government in one hand and the French company ERAB in the period 1959-1963).

That talks led ERAB to get the right to extract, liquidate and export Iraqi oil.

The study concentrated on the historical background of the emergence of multinational companies and the motived of emergence and the factors that helped as well as the main objectives of the monopoly regime in the oil industry and this was addressed in the first part of the research.

The study, also, dealt with the beginning of the entry of monopolistic companies to Iraq with knowledge of the motives of the establishment Iraqi Oil Company.

In addition to that, the study focused on the negotiations between the Iraqi government and multinational companies and the discussions that happened between the Iraqi government and the French company ERAB.

Finally, the present paper invistigated the international reactions to the given French - Iraqi agreement