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Why Nations Put to Sea Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century

Why Nations Put to Sea Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century

Originally published in 2000 this book describes the relation between technology and the exercise of sea power. It emphasizes the importance of mastering and maintaining technology for the means of exercising maritime power whether the USA is at peace or in a time of conflict. The changing character of maritime power is evaluated through an examination of current trends historical precedent and deductive logic. Many factors influence sea power but it is the exponential growth in the use of science and technology which the author believes is the key to understanding the future of sea power. | Why Nations Put to Sea Technology and the Changing Character of Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century

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The South China Sea From a Regional Maritime Dispute to Geo-Strategic Competition

The South China Sea From a Regional Maritime Dispute to Geo-Strategic Competition

This book explores the very latest developments in the South China Sea maritime dispute. It examines the South China Sea as an arena for geostrategic competition between China and the United States and why the dispute is so important for regional and global geopolitics. It outlines the most recent developments in the sea itself and assesses the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the current views of the contesting claimants. It considers the position of countries from outside the region India as well as Japan; surveys military and naval developments; and examines confidence building preventive diplomacy and dispute resolution measures. The book concludes by highlighting the points of greatest risk and by discussing how the situation is likely to develop going forward. | The South China Sea From a Regional Maritime Dispute to Geo-Strategic Competition

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China's Policy towards the South China Sea When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea

China's Policy towards the South China Sea When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea

This book provides an explanation of Chinese policy towards the South China Sea and argues that this has been sculpted by the changing dynamics of the law of the sea in conjunction with regional geopolitical flux. The past few decades have witnessed a bifurcated trend in China’s management of territorial disputes. Over the years while China gradually calmed and settled most land-border disputes with its neighbors disputes on the ocean frontier continued to simmer in a seething cauldron. China's Policy towards the South China Sea attributes the distinctive path of China’s approach to maritime disputes to a unique factor – the law of the sea (LOS) as the rules of the road in the ocean. By deconstructing the concept of sovereignty and treating the LOS as an evolving regime the book examines how the changing dynamics of the LOS regime have complicated and reshaped the nature and content of sovereign disputes in the ocean regime as well as the options of settlement. Applying the findings to the South China Sea case the author traces the learning curve on which China has embarked to comprehend the complexity of the dispute accordingly and finds that it is the dynamic interaction of the law of the sea regime and the geopolitical conditions that has driven the evolution of China’s South China Sea policy. This book will be of great interest to students of Chinese and Asian politics international law international relations and security studies. | China's Policy towards the South China Sea When Geopolitics Meets the Law of the Sea

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Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

This book focuses on the key naval strategic objectives of obtaining and maintaining sea control. During times of war sea control or the ability of combatants to enjoy naval dominance plays a crucial role in that side’s ability to attain overall victory. This book explains and analyzes in much greater detail sea control in all its complexities and describes the main methods of obtaining and maintaining it. Building on the views of naval classical thinkers this book utilizes historical examples to illustrate the main methods of sea control. Each chapter focuses on a particular method including destroying the enemy forces by a decisive action destroying enemy forces over time-attrition containing enemy fleet choke point control and capturing important enemy's positions/basing area The aim is to provide a comprehensive theory and practice of the struggle for sea control at the operational level. It should therefore provide a guide to practitioners on how to plan and conduct operational warfare at sea. The book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy defence studies and security studies. | Maritime Strategy and Sea Control Theory and Practice

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Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

This book focuses on the theory and practice of maritime strategy and operations by the weaker powers at sea. Illustrated by examples from naval and military history the book explains and analyzes the strategies of the weaker side at sea in both peacetime and wartime; in defense versus offense; the main prerequisites for disputing control of the sea; and the conceptual framework of disputing control of the sea. It also explains and analyzes in some detail the main methods of disputing sea control – avoiding/seeking decisive encounters weakening enemy naval forces over time counter-containment of enemy naval forces destroying the enemy’s military-economic potential at sea attacks on the enemy coast defense of the coast defense/capturing important positions/basing areas and defense/capturing of a choke point. A majority of the world’s navies are currently of small or medium-size. In the case of a war with a much stronger opponent they would be strategically on the defensive and their main objective then would be to dispute control of the sea by a stronger side at sea. This book provides a practical guide to such a strategy. This book would be of much interest to students of naval power maritime security strategic studies and military/naval history. | Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial Theory and Practice

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Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea

Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea

The Routledge Handbook of the South China Sea presents a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of South China Sea issues. It evaluates the dynamics of the latest developments and identifies factors that contribute to dispute settlement and a cooperative management regime of one of the most important seas in the world – one which not only contains rich marine resources and distinctive biodiversity but is also a critical sea route for global trade and communications. The Handbook is divided into six parts each representing a focused area of enquiry: • History and geostrategic landscape • Sovereignty and maritime entitlements • South China Sea policies of major claimants • Natural resources and environment • Cooperation and institutions • Challenges and prospects Written by world-renowned experts and scholars with specialisms from geography to international law the volume’s 25 chapters contribute interdisciplinary perspectives reflecting the impact of how South China Sea policies are shaped by national governments and international organizations. As such the Handbook provides an authoritative reference to South China Sea Studies useful for students and scholars of international relations history maritime and Asian studies.

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Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches of The Corrupting Sea towards locally-oriented case studies. Spanning from the Archaic period to the early Middle Ages contributors engage the pioneering studies of the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel through the use of critical theory GIS network analysis and postcolonial cultural inquiries. Scholars from several time periods and disciplines rethink the Mediterranean as a geographic and cultural space shaped by human connectivity and follow the flow of ideas ships trade goods and pilgrims along the roads and seascapes that connected the Mediterranean across time and space. The volume thus interrogates key concepts like cabotage seascapes deep time social networks and connectivity in the light of contemporary archaeological and theoretical advances in order to create new ways of writing more diverse histories of the ancient world that bring together local contexts literary materials and archaeological analysis. | Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

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Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

This book assesses and illustrates innovative and practical world-wide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue illustrative case studies performed from the United States Korea Australia New Zealand Thailand Japan China and the Netherlands identify the structural (engineered) non-structural (nature-based) and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. The alternative flood risk reduction mechanisms are extracted and analyzed from each case study to develop and explain a set of design-based typologies to combat sea level rise which can then be applied to help proctor new and existing communities. It is important for those located within the current or future floodplain considering sea level rise and those responsible for land use developmental and population-related activities within these areas to strategically implement a series of integrated constructed and green infrastructure-based flood risk reduction mechanisms to adequately protect threatened areas. As a result this book is beneficial to both academics and practitioners related to multiple design professions such as urban designers urban planners architects real estate developers and landscape architects. | Landscape Architecture for Sea Level Rise Innovative Global Solutions

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Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

This title was first published in 2003. The Baltic Sea region offers exceptionally rich material for the discussion of civil society. This is because it has witnessed the erosion of communist regimes the crisis of the welfare state the increasing importance of new social movements and the shift from a centralist paradigm to one oriented towards networks. This engaging book focuses on the phenomena and prospects for civil society in north-eastern Europe which have had a major impact on political and scholarly debates since 1989. Nineteen experts from the region provide a comprehensive and comparative account of the history the present state and the perspectives of civil society in the Baltic Sea area. The reader will learn that civil society should not only be seen in opposition to the state and that it has a major impact on current developments of European integration. | Civil Society in the Baltic Sea Region

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Arbitration Concerning the South China Sea Philippines versus China

Arbitration Concerning the South China Sea Philippines versus China

On 22 January 2013 the Republic of the Philippines instituted arbitral proceedings against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) with regard to disputes between the two countries in the South China Sea. The South China Sea Arbitration is a landmark case in international law because of the parties involved the legal questions to be decided and the absence of one of the parties. As revealed in its official statements the PRC will neither accept nor participate in this arbitration nor present written and oral arguments in the tribunal room. Such default of appearance makes applicable certain procedural rules. According to Article 9 of Annex VII the Tribunal before making its Award is obligated to satisfy itself not only that it has jurisdiction over the dispute but also that the claims brought by the Philippines are well-founded in fact and law. Therefore it is necessary for the Tribunal to look into all the claims brought forward by the Philippines and all the disputes constituted by the claims in the procedural phase. The possible arguments the PRC could make should be explored during this process. This book brings together chapters selected from well-established scholars in Asia Europe and North America addressing the issues arising from the South China Sea Arbitration. It contains five easy to read parts: origin and development of the South China Sea dispute; the jurisdiction and admissibility of the case; international adjudication and dispute settlement; legal issues arising from the case such as the legal status of the U-shaped line and islands rocks and low-tide elevations; and the Arbitration case and its impact on regional maritime security. | Arbitration Concerning the South China Sea Philippines versus China

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The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea A Critical Examination

The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea A Critical Examination

Offering theoretical insights on region building this book explores the attempts to formulate a political and institutional vision for the Black Sea region in the post-9/11 era and in the context of the enlargements of the EU and NATO. It investigates in depth these attempts viewed as a failure by the key actors involved in order to understand how regions emerge in international politics as well as how and why they may fail to come into being. To this end the book explores a range of factors that impacted region building in the Black Sea considering the role of region builders involved their practices and the context of their actions and the spatial representations and security discourses that were integral to the region building process. Hence attention is paid to how these factors both enabled and constrained the discursive construction of the Black Sea region thus identifying the elements that distinguish the Black Sea from other successful cases of region building. Based on critical approaches towards international relations and political geography this book both expands and deepens the scope and understanding of regions and will thus appeal to academics and students in the fields of International Relations Security Studies Political Geography and Regional Integration. | The Geopolitics of Region Building in the Black Sea A Critical Examination

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Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads A Sea of Voices

Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads A Sea of Voices

Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads: A Sea of Voices explores the musical practices that circulate the Mediterranean Sea. Collectively the authors relate this musical flow to broader transnational flows of people and power that generate complex encounters bringing the diverse cultures of Europe Africa and the Middle East into new and challenging forms of contact. Individually the chapters offer detailed ethnographic and historiographic studies of music’s multifaceted roles in such interactions. From collaborations between Moroccan migrant and Spanish Muslim convert musicians in Granada to the incorporation of West African sonorities and Hasidic melodies in the musical liturgy of Abu Ghosh Abbey Jerusalem these communities sing play dance listen and record their diverse experiences of encounter at the Mediterranean crossroads. | Music and Encounter at the Mediterranean Crossroads A Sea of Voices

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The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands Literary and Historical Imaginaries

The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands Literary and Historical Imaginaries

Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of the Anthropocene are being played out. This book shows how the fragile landscapes around the North Sea have served as bellwethers for environmental concern both now and in the recent past. It looks at literary sources drawn from the countries around the North Sea (Denmark Germany the Netherlands and England) from the mid-nineteenth century onwards taking them out of their established national and cultural contexts and reframing them in the light of human concern with fast-changing and hazardous environments. The six chapters serve as literary case studies that highlight memories of flood disaster and recovery attempts to engineer the landscape into submission perceptions of the landscape as both local and global and the imagination of the future of our planet. This approach which combines environmental history and ecocriticism shows the importance of cultural artefacts in understandings of and responses to environmental change and advocates for the importance of literary studies in the environmental humanities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the Environmental Humanities including Eco-criticism and Environmental History as well as anyone studying literature from the Germanic philologies. | The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands Literary and Historical Imaginaries

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Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

This volume reproduces the Cabinet Confidential print of January 1855 a time of crisis in British Government when the Aberdeen Ministry heavily defeated on a vote of confidence was eventually replaced by Lord Palmerston’s Ministry. The First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham survived the change and the print reflected his decision to use the Vice Admirals commanding the principal theatres of war the Baltic and the Black sea as scapegoats for the failure of his overly ambitious under-funded strategy. While Sir James Dundas went quietly Sir Charles Napier fought back. While the two collections provide a sound introduction to the key issues of the campaign including the capture of Bomarsund plans to attack other Baltic fortresses the economic blockade the bombardment of Odessa the invasion of the Crimea and the disastrous loss of shipping of Balaklava in November 1854 this collection should be read in conjunction with the other official and private correspondence. | Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

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The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region Evolution and Transformation

The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region Evolution and Transformation

This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism the urban demography and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation. | The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region Evolution and Transformation

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Health as International Politics Combating Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region

Health as International Politics Combating Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region

In recent years health has become a pressing issue in international politics - a development which has been reflected in the growth of academic literature on the subject. The emergence of new (and re-emergence of old) infectious diseases since the early 1990s has attracted scholarly interest from various fields of investigation. At the same time in a European context the dramatic rise in tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in some former East Bloc countries has been a cause of particular concern. This timely work provides a detailed account of how the states around the Baltic Sea have met the challenge of communicable diseases and used health issues as an instrument in their foreign policy more widely. | Health as International Politics Combating Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region

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The Aral Sea Basin Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

The Aral Sea Basin Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

This book offers the first multidisciplinary overview of water resources issues and management in the Aral Sea Basin covering both the Amu Darya and Syr Darya River Basins. The two main rivers of Amu Darya and Syr Darya and their tributaries comprise the Aral Sea Basin area and are the lifeline for about 70 million inhabitants in Central Asia. Written by regional and international experts this book critically examines the current state trends and future of water resources management and development in this major part of the Central Asia region. It brings together insights on the history of water management in the region surface and groundwater assessment issues of transboundary water management and environmental degradation and restoration and an overview of the importance of water for the key economic sectors and overall socio-economic development of Central Asian countries as well as of hydro politics in the region. The book also focusses on the future of water sector development in the Basin including a review of local and international actors as well as an analysis of the current status and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by Basin countries. The book will be essential reading for those interested in sea basin management environmental policy in Central Asia and water resource management more widely. It will also act as a reference source for decision-makers in state agencies as well as a background source of information for NGOs. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3. 0 license. https://tandfbis. s3-us-west-2. amazonaws. com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138348882_oachapter08. pdf | The Aral Sea Basin Water for Sustainable Development in Central Asia

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China's Maritime Security Strategy The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power

China's Maritime Security Strategy The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power

This book examines the evolution of China’s maritime security strategy and questions what has made China shift from a constrained to a more assertive strategy. Historically China has not been an active player in maritime security but in recent years Beijing has begun to pursue policies and measures to safeguard its maritime rights and interests in the Indo-Pacific region. This growing influence in the region has become a concern for other countries about what kind of sea power China is developing. This book seeks to address this concern by providing an overview of the development of China’s maritime security strategy from the era of Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. It suggests that while the involvement of maritime actors and the development of naval capability have provided the depth to the strategy the national strategic guidelines from each generation of Chinese leadership have determined the overall direction of the maritime security strategy. After 40 years of development China has established a set of priorities for its maritime agenda: territorial integrity is at the top followed by development and then regional and international maritime cooperation. These findings help us to understand China’s multidimensional maritime power as being both assertive and cooperative. This book will be of much interest to students of naval strategy maritime security Chinese politics and International Relations. | China's Maritime Security Strategy The Evolution of a Growing Sea Power

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The Problems Of Arab Economic Development And Integration

The Problems Of Arab Economic Development And Integration

In this book scholars journalists and officials of Arab pan-Arab and non-Arab institutions afford insights into the problems of Arab economic development and integration. The contributors who met on the occasion of the 11th Arab Summit (also known as the First Arab Economic Summit) demonstrate that Arab economic integration is the best means by which individual Arab countries can achieve economic development. Their study of the integration process the obstacles encountered and the results achieved in addition to being of interest to anyone concerned with the Arab world is of particular relevance to those studying economic development in the Third World and South-South or North-South relations.

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Maritime and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea Faces of Power and Law in the Age of China’s rise

Maritime and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea Faces of Power and Law in the Age of China’s rise

This edited volume rethinks the relationship between power and law in the age of China’s rise by examining recent developments in the South China Sea (SCS). The contributors explore different interpretations of international law on the legal status of the contested islands and rocks and provide detailed analyses of the contested concepts and provisions the 2016 ruling by the SCS arbitration tribunal as well as the environmental economic and political impacts of the ruling. This book facilitates a more meaningful and productive dialogue over the intersection interaction and interdependence between power and law in the context of the SCS. Assessing the interactions between political legal and normative forces it provides insights into the specific dynamics of the dispute and the shifting security landscape in the region but also offers a basis for thinking more deeply about the broader rise of China. This book will appeal to both students and scholars of IR International Law and Asian Studies and those engaged in research on the SCS disputes the rise of China and with a theoretical interest in law and power in international affairs. | Maritime and Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea Faces of Power and Law in the Age of China’s rise

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Freedom Management How leaders can stay afloat in the sea of social connections

Freedom Management How leaders can stay afloat in the sea of social connections

Modern management theory has been established on the ashes of Taylorism emphasizing control over accountability conformity over uniqueness and constraint over freedom. Leadership and management theories and the practical approaches of this age of society can be understood as an ongoing struggle to overcome the boundaries of such a concept of organizations and society. Also latter movements like empowerment or the competence based waves of change have left what we do in organizations largely unscathed. Organizations today are often bereft of a strong leadership function and the result is a decline in overall engagement. Luca Solari contends that this is because the change ahead requires a complete reshuffling of our conceptions of what it means to run an organization and this will not come without pain for those in charge of managing who are unable to shift their roles. It comes as no surprise that the complex pattern of preexisting interests acts like a powerful shield against this change within government society and business organizations alike. This book provides an essential argument as to why contemporary organizations need to change and offers practical guidance on how to overcome the waves while helping your organization to thrive in this new era of management. This book will appeal to leaders as well as those involved in human resource management and organizational change. | Freedom Management How leaders can stay afloat in the sea of social connections

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Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making

Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making

Since 1975 the leaders of the major western economies have gathered in annual summit meetings to try to agree a unified response to the main political and economic problems facing them. This book first published in 1984 traces the development of the summit meetings and tries to assess their impact on western decision-making and international relations in general. The summits arose as the product of a serious crisis that shook the world economy in the early 1970s. They have been sustained because of the waning of the American hegemony that had supported the postwar international economic regime. From this it became vital for the leaders of the major economies to reassert collective leadership in order to try to re-establish a new world economic equilibrium. | Economic Summits and Western Decision-Making

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