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 and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503639649
• ISBN13: 9781503639645
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"