The Sea and International Relations
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The Sea and International Relations

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sea and International Relations

About this book

While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time. Yet, the sea is the quintessential international space, and its importance to global politics has become all the more obvious in recent years. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from IR, Historical Sociology, Blue Humanities and Critical Ocean Studies, The sea and International Relations breaks with this trend of oceanic amnesia, and kickstarts a theoretical, conceptual and empirical discussion about the sea and IR, by highlighting theoretical puzzles, analysing broad historical perspectives and addressing contemporary challenges. In bringing the sea back into IR, the book reconceptualises the canvas of international relations to include the oceans as a social, political, economic and military space which affects the workings of world politics.

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Yes, you can access The Sea and International Relations by Benjamin de Carvalho, Halvard Leira, Benjamin de Carvalho,Halvard Leira in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politique et relations internationales & Le genre et la loi. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Preface and acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: staring at the sea
  10. 1 International Relations’ sea sickness: a materialist diagnosis
  11. 2 The symbolic space of the sea: mythologising a nation, performing an alliance
  12. 3 The white man and the sea? Gender, race and foundations of order
  13. 4 Boundaries in the sea: the production of political space in the early modern colonial Atlantic
  14. 5 Challenging order at sea: the early practice of privateering
  15. 6 A sea of connectivity and entanglement: modern mobilities and ancient thalassocracies in the Mediterranean Sea
  16. 7 Constructing insecure maritime spaces: navigational technologies and the experience of the modern mariner
  17. 8 Obligations erga omnes and the common heritage of mankind under the Law of the Sea Convention
  18. 9 Fishing for territory: historical International Relations and the environment
  19. Conclusion: international terraqueous relations
  20. Index