Why the UAE Left OPEC

"Instead, he reminded me that this was the plan all along. Like that suit and tie from 1986, we had outgrown Opec. Oil revenue was always a means to an end, he said. The goal was never to be an oil state. It was to build something more enduring — a diversified economy, a knowledge society, a country with the depth and the partnerships to thrive in whatever the world became next."