Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic

Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations. Since the onset of the Second Industrial Revolution in the second half of the nineteenth century, energy has become a key axis of politics and international relations, particularly for the United States and Western Europe. In Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic , George A. Gonzalez documents how the United States-thanks to its copious reserves of oil, coal, and na