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