Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics - The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

Reviews the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe since the Middle Ages, noting how changing technology and economic patterns have transformed the global significance of those passage ways, especially since the end of the Cold War.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction
1 The Strategic Geography of Eurasia's Sea Lanes
2 The Changing Geo-Economics of the Sea Lanes
3 Linking Land and Sea: the Transformation of Eurasia's Rimlands
4 Guardians at the Gate: The Anglo-Saxons and the Indo-Pacific
5 The Challenger: China and Eurasia's Sea Lanes
6 The Stem of Victory: Infrastructure and the Sea Lanes
7 The Changing Chessboard of Sea-Lane Geopolitics
8 Shadows and Critical Uncertainties
9 Prospects and Policy Implications
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Kent E. Calder

Product details

• Authors: Kent E Calder, Kent E. Calder, Calder Kent E.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2025
• EAN: 9780815740759
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-4075-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian