Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower

by Colin Flint

Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Political geographer Colin Flint highlights the geography of seapower as a dynamic, continual struggle to gain control of near waters--those parts of the oceans close to a country's shoreline--and far waters--parts of the oceans beyond the horizon and that neighbor the shorelines of other countries. A forceful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503639649
• ISBN13: 9781503639645
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages