Near and Far Waters
The Geopolitics of Seapower
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Simon Barber
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Colin Flint
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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 and clarifying challenge to conventional accounts of geopolitics, Near and Far Waters offers an accessible introduction to the combination of economic and political relations that are the reason behind, and the result of, the development of seapower to control near waters and project force into far waters.
Examining the histories of three naval powers (the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States), this book distills the past and present patterns of seapower and their tendency to trigger repercussive conflict and war. Listeners will gain an appreciation for how geopolitics works, the importance of seapower in economic competition, the motivations behind China's desire to become a global naval force, and the risks of current and future wars. Drawing on decades of experience, Flint urges listeners to take seriously the dilemma of near/far waters as a context for an alternative understanding of global politics.
The book is published by Stanford University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
©2024 Colin Flint (P)2025 Redwood AudiobooksReseñas de la Crítica
"Colin Flint proves to be a shrewd observer of the personal and pertinent." (Klaus Dodds, author of The New Border Wars)
"Engaging, accessible book...an eye-opening contribution to understanding one of the central threats facing the world in the twenty-first century." (Alexander Murphy, University of Oregon)
"Insightful, provocative, and crisply written...a must-read book." (James Tyner, Kent State University)