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

by Kent E. Calder

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. Begins with a survey of the geography itself, and of how rimland nations such as India, Indonesia, and the Gulf configure it. A history of the changing economic role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815740751
• ISBN13: 9780815740759
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 320 Pages