Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-First Century
5. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-87734-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

This is the 5th, revised and updated, edition of Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century.

The sea has always provided the basis for humankind's prosperity and security. With the emergence of an increasingly globalized world trading system in the early part of the 21st century, this became ever more obvious, Contemporary conditions have therefore required navies to adapt and to expand the range of their interests, activities and responsibilities. The Houthi assault on international shipping in the Red Sea and the need to monitor sanctions and ‘dark fleet’ operations shows that these tasks are important and developing fast. Even so, and especially with the re-emergence of potentially de-stabilising great power competition, traditional hard power naval concerns still predominate. This book investigates the consequences of all this for the developing nature, composition and functions of the world's navies, and provides a guide for the changing but crucial role of seapower in the 21st century. This edition contains new material on the Russo-Ukraine and Gaza wars, tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the Arctic and North Atlantic, the emerging concept of ‘seabed control’, as well as the extent that technological innovations and other recent strategic developments are challenging traditional concepts of maritime strategy and the roles of navies.

This book is essential reading for students of naval power, maritime security and naval history, and highly recommended for students of strategic studies, international security and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Till, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Seestreitkräfte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Maritime Strategy: A Quick Introduction  Chapter 2: Grey Zone Operations as Maritime Strategy  Chapter 3: Why the Sea Matters  Chapter 4: A Maritime Predisposition  Chapter 5: Naval and Economic Power  Chapter 6: Navies in a De-globalising World? Alternative Futures  Chapter 7: Who Said What and Why it Matters  Chapter 8: Navies and Technology  Chapter 9: Command of the Sea and Sea Control  Chapter 10: Securing Sea Control  Chapter 11: Exploiting Sea Control: The Control of Maritime Communications  Chapter 12: Exploiting Sea Control: Operations from the Sea and Expeditionary Operations  Chapter 13: Exploiting Sea Control: Stabilisation Operations  Chapter 14: Maritime Security: An Introduction  Chapter 15: Delivering Maritime Security  Chapter 16: Naval Diplomacy  Chapter 17: Only Connect

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey Till is Emeritus Professor of Maritime Studies at King’s College London, holds the S. Rajaratnam Chair of Strategic Studies at the RSIS in Singapore and is a Senior non-resident Research Fellow at the US Naval War College. He is author of nearly 400 books, chapters and articles. His recent publications include Recovering Naval Power (with John Hattendorf, 2023) and How to Grow a Navy (2022).