Butel offers a global history of the Atlantic, surveying the important events of the ocean's rich past and discussing how its power and influence has affected the peoples and nations which have come into contact with it over many centuries

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 The Puzzle: Diverse State Responses to Energy Insecurity -- PART ONE: ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK -- 2 What's the Problem? Energy Security in the Developed Democracies -- 3 What's a State to Do? Potential Policy Responses to Energy...

This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....