Twenty-First Century Seapower: Cooperation and Conflict at Sea

by Dutton; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415698122
• ISBN10: 041569812X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-05-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of the emerging naval powers (China, India, Japan and Russia) in relation to those of the US and other NATO countries, the established naval powers. A multinational collaborative study, the volume features scholars and practitioners from China, India, Japan, Europe, and the US, whose various perspectives contribute to an analysis of the prospects for conflict and cooperation in twenty-first century maritime affairs. The first section addresses the historical sources of great-power interest in developing naval power for international maritime stability, including the role of security interests, domestic politics and nationalism in naval expansionism. The second section considers the motivations for expanded naval power on the part of China, India, Japan and Russia. It thereby offers a comprehensive assessment of the national and domestic interests and international conflicts driving naval expansionism, the implications of this for bilateral and multilateral naval conflict, and the multiple political and policy challenges to maintaining stability at sea into the twenty-first century. The third section addresses the naval policies of the established naval powers, the United States and the NATO countries, including their maritime interests, naval security policies, and interest in participating in maritime confidence-building measures with emerging naval powers and their support for global maritime security and humanitarian operations. This section also addresses China's interest in participating with the United States and NATO in maritime confidence building measures. The concluding section addresses the emerging complexity of international maritime security politics and the emerging great-power policy agenda for managing and mitigating rivalry among rising naval powers and established naval powers. Given the importance of China's emerging naval power, it primarily focuses on China's interest in managing great power maritime rivalries. This book will be of much interest to students of naval power, Asian security and politics, strategic studies, security studies and IR in general.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Land powers go to sea	p. 7
The national security of secondary maritime powers within the classic European states system	p. 9
Geography and seapower	p. 18
Conflict at sea: how it happens and how it can be avoided	p. 42
Emerging naval powers: sources and objectives of naval policies	p. 63
The boundaries and directions of China's seapower	p. 65
India's growing maritime power: roots, objectives and long-term plans	p. 85
Russia's naval ambitions: driving forces and constraints	p. 112
Reluctant seapower: geopolitics in Asia and Japan's maritime strategy	p. 136
A new maritime strategy for the twenty-first century	p. 155
Defense of the system: changing the geometry of great power competition	p. 157
NATO: war fighting, naval diplomacy and multilateral cooperation at sea	p. 177
China's maritime security policy making and maritime confidence-building measures	p. 197
Countering piracy and armed robbery in Asia: a study of two areas	p. 213
Managing contemporary maritime security	p. 237
Applying the brakes to naval rivalry in the Western Pacific: an agenda for U.S.-China maritime partnership	p. 239
Law of the sea for the twenty-first century	p. 262
Freedom of the seas and the law of the sea: a Chinese perspective	p. 281
Confidence-building measures and non-traditional security cooperation	p. 298
Index	p. 316
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