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Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic.

Gonzalez, George A.

Energy and the Politics of the North Atlantic. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (201 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Energy and Europe -- Exogenous Energy Factors in European Integration -- Endogenous Energy Factors in European Integration -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Political Economy of Energy -- State Autonomy Theory -- U.S. Energy Policy as Special Interest Politics -- Urban Sprawl -- Civilian Nuclear Power -- Economic Elite Theory -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Urban Sprawl in the United States and the Creation of the Hitler Regime -- The U.S. Federal Government and Urban Sprawl in the 1920s -- Urban Sprawl and Consumer Durables -- U.S. Foreign Policy and the Radicalization (or Nazification) of the German Government -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Urban Sprawl, the Great Depression, and the Start of World War II -- The International Community and the Early Roosevelt Administration -- Surplus Capital -- The Production of Consumer Durables -- The U.S. Federal Government's Promotion of Urban Sprawl -- German Automobile Policies in the Early1930s -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Cold War and U.S. Oil Policy -- American Grand Strategy and the Cold War -- Foreign Policy -- Trade Policy -- U.S. Economic Growth and the Cold War -- U.S. Oil Policy -- The Oil Shocks of the 1970s -- European Post-World War II Oil Policies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Energy Depletion and World Politics -- Urban Sprawl and Global Oil Production -- The U.S. Invasion of Iraq -- National Energy Policy Development Group -- The Neoconservative Policy Network and Iraq -- Russian-European-U.S. Energy Politics -- Civilian Nuclear Power -- Pipeline Politics -- The WBCSD -- The ICC -- Asia-Pacific Partnership for Clean Development and Climate -- U.S.-China Clean Energy Forum -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Oil Depletion and the Viability of the North Atlantic Alliance -- U.S. Policy Discussion Groups and Global Energy Politics. Oil Depletion and the American World System -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Documents how energy resource acquisition has been the driving motivator for European and American international relations.

9781438447964


Electronic books.

HD9502.E82.G66 2013

333.79091821

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