Security Studies in a New Era of Maritime Competition
- 222 pages
- English
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Security Studies in a New Era of Maritime Competition
About this book
How do two conventionally powerful, nuclear armed, but commercially oriented great powers, reliant on sea lanes and global maritime infrastructure, engage in a long-term strategic rivalry? When do such competitions lead to crisis instability and even war? This book presents a research agenda using a variety of methods to explore this unique competitive environment for China and the United States.
The most likely great power friction points today are located at sea. Any shots fired between China and the United States will likely be between navies and air forces rather than armies. While much security studies understandably concentrates on land forces, basic concepts such as the importance of territory, the offense-defense balance, technological competition, economic warfare, and crisis stability do not comfortably apply to maritime competition. The chapters in this volume consider the use of naval power - including blockades, naval diplomacy, fleet engagements, and nuclear escalation - across the spectrum of global politics and international conflict. The volume encourages applying the many classic approaches of security studies to this high-stakes relationship while considering maritime conflict as distinct from other forms, such as land and nuclear, that have traditionally occupied the field.
This work will be of great interest to students of strategic studies, international relations, maritime security, and Asian-American politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Security Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Too Important to Be Left to the Admirals: The Need to Study Maritime Great-Power Competition
- 2 The Influence of Sea Power on Politics: Domain- and Platform-Specific Attributes of Material Capabilities
- 3 Clashes at Sea: Explaining the Onset, Militarization, and Resolution of Diplomatic Maritime Claims
- 4 Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age
- 5 All-In or All-Out: Why Insularity Pushes and Pulls American Grand Strategy to Extremes
- 6 The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict
- 7 Primacy and Punishment: US Grand Strategy, Maritime Power, and Military Options to Manage Decline
- Index