This article revisits Ibrahim Shihata’s role in developing the financial aid policies of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) after the formal inauguration of the New International Economic Order project (NIEO) in 1974. As director of the OPEC Special Fund, subsequently the OPEC Fund for International Development, after its establishment in 1976, Shihata spearheaded the development of the organization’s aid policies. He also defended the NIEO as a set of sensible reform measures for redistributing wealth, resources, and technology. This article contends that Shihata’s vigorous defence of OPEC’s aid record aimed to demonstrate that the NIEO – an enterprise OPEC supported – involved not simply structural reform of the inter-state system but direct engagement with questions of intra-state distribution, and that OPEC aid was designed partly to keep the ‘Third World bloc’ from disintegrating due to the growing distance between oil-producing and non-oil-producing countries.

本文重温易卜拉欣·希塔在开发石油输出国家组织（财政援助政策的作用OPEC的国际经济新秩序的项目（正式就职后）NIEO）于1974年作为主任欧佩克专项基金，随后欧佩克Shihata国际发展基金会（1976年成立）率先制定了该组织的援助政策。他还为NIEO辩护，认为这是用于重新分配财富，资源和技术的一系列明智的改革措施。本文认为，Shihata对OPEC援助记录的有力辩护旨在证明NIEO–由OPEC支持的企业–不仅涉及州际体系的结构改革，还涉及州内分配问题的直接参与，并且OPEC援助的设计部分是为了防止“第三世界集团”因距离越来越远而瓦解石油生产国与非石油生产国之间。