Freedom of the Seas and US Foreign Policy

An Intellectual History
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-45149-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series

This book critically analyzes US political-military strategy by arguing that freedom of the seas discourse is fundamentally unfit for an era of maritime great power competition.

The work conducts a genealogical intellectual history of freedom of the seas discourse in US foreign policy to show how the concept has evolved over time to facilitate American control over the global ocean space. It concludes that the contemporary discourse works to establish the high seas as an arena free from claims of sovereignty so that the United States, as the presumed unrivaled naval power, can intervene globally on behalf of its national interests. However, since sea control strategies depend on a preponderance of material force, as the United States wanes in relative material capability it becomes less able to support political-military strategies predicated on the assumption of global naval dominance. The book provides a timely commentary on the current geopolitical competition between the United States and China, and critiques the US approach toward China in the maritime domain in order to highlight potential avenues of foreign policy action that may enable the two countries to mitigate the risk of conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of naval history, maritime security, US foreign policy, and international relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Donahue, Connor

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales See-, Luft- und Weltraumrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Part I: Mare Liberum  1. Setting the Stage  2. Charting a Course  3. The Institutionalization of Freedom of the Seas Discourse  4. Doctrinal Change at the Turn of the Century, 1880-1912  5. Woodrow Wilson and The First World War  Part II: Mare Imperium  6. The Second World War  7. The Cold War – Part I  8. The Cold War – Part II  9. Post-Cold War Discourse  Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Connor Donahue received his PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his masters from King’s College London. He is currently working for the US Department of the Navy.