Eurasia's Maritime Rise and Global Security: From the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic

by Geoffrey F. Gresh

Overview

This book explores Eurasia’s growing embrace of its maritime geography from the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic. In an age of climate change, the melting of the Arctic will transform Eurasia’s importance, in addition to influencing the political, economic, and military dynamics across Eurasia’s main maritime regions. These emerging shifts have already begun to alter maritime trade and investment patterns, and thus the global political economy. It also creates a rising threat to the current status quo of world order that has long been dominated by the Atlantic World. This edited volume showcases some of the world’s leading experts and examines Eurasia from a saltwater perspective, analyzing its main maritime spaces in a threefold manner—as avenue, as arena, as source—to show the significance of this geostrategic change and why it matters for the future of the world’s oceans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319718057
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	04/04/2018
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security
Edition description:	1st ed. 2018
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Geoffrey F. Gresh is Department Chair and Associate Professor of International Security Studies at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Why Maritime Eurasia?
Geoffrey F. Gresh

PART I: THE INDIAN OCEAN

2. Strategic Maritime Chokepoints: Perspectives from the Global Shipping and Port Sectors
Rockford Weitz

3. Chokepoints of the Western Indian Ocean, China’s Maritime Silk Route, and the Future of Regional Security
Geoffrey F. Gresh

4. The Economics of Somali Counterpiracy: Assessing Counterpiracy Measures for International Shipping Companies
Jelmer D. Ikink

5. The Rise of the Indo-Japanese Maritime Partnership
Sea Sovereign Thomas

6. The Fastest Way Across the Seas: Cyberspace Operations and Cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific
Jonathan Reiber

PART II: PACIFIC ASIA

7. Forgotten Borders: Japan’s Maritime Operations in the Korean War and Implications for North Korea
Sung-Yoon Lee

8. Blurred Lines: Twenty-First Century Maritime Security in the South China Sea
Joseph A. Gagliano

9. Sea Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta
Zachary White

10. The Great Convergence: Maritime Supremacy, Energy Primacy, and the Oceanic Coalition in Asia
Stephen A. Lambo

PART III: THE ARCTIC & THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD’S OCEANS

11. The Coming Arctic Boom: As the Ice Melts, the Region Heats Up
Scott G. Borgerson

12. Public and National Imagination of the Arctic
Derek Kane O’Leary

13. Arctic Fisheries Management in the Twenty-First Century
Elliott Creem

14. Security Competition Rising: Renewed Militarization of the High North
Ethan Corbin

15. Tackling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the International Maritime Industry Aaron Strong

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book should transform our traditional understanding of global politics and economics. Viewing the oceans around the Eurasian land mass as avenues, arenas, and sources, the fourteen authors trace the consequences of global warming for the military, economic, and security of the major players. It is a worthy tribute to John Curtis Perry, the path-breaking scholar in this field.” (George R. Packard, Dean Emeritus, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, USA)

“This path-breaking collection of essays introduces some of the planet’s most critical geographies and environments in rich detail and with thoughtful analytical rigor. Coursing spatially through Eurasia’s three primary maritime regions—the Indian Ocean, Pacific Asia, and the Arctic—this volume probes diverse security and economic challenges facing the world’s navies and merchant ships. Skillfully edited by Geoffrey F. Gresh, Eurasia’s Maritime Rise and Global Security provides measured consideration of a variety of international and national prools that attempt to mediate national and private aspirations on these seas.” (Alexis Dudden, Professor of History, University of Connecticut, USA)