Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780367427221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 278 str.

Paul Kennedy; Evan Wilson

Opis

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges.

Recenzje

“Multipolar Worlds is an important correction to the fallacy that either multipolarity or complexity are new elements in maritime strategy. At a time when the world’s navies are struggling to understand the strategic and technological challenges they face, these essays provide insights into the historical and contemporary role of seapower that will be of value to decision makers at many levels.”-- RADM (ret.) James Goldrick, RAN

Spis treści

Foreword Paul Kennedy  Introduction Evan Wilson  1. French Sea Power in the Utrecht Era: "Balance of Power" and the Strategic Context of Louis XIV’s Navy Alan James  2. "A Brilliant Second": French Hybridization as a Great Power Brian C. Chao  3. British North Atlantic Convoys, 1812–14, and the Subsequent Rejection of the Convoy System Roger Knight  4. The Limits of Naval Power: Britain after 1815 Evan Wilson  5. David Lloyd George and the Contest for Naval Mastery: The American Challenge John H. Maurer  6. Japan’s Transition from a Maritime to a Continental Security Paradigm, 1928–1941 S.C.M. Paine  7. A Rising Power Facing Multipolarity: Italian Naval Policy and Strategy in the Age of Fascism Fabio De Ninno  8. Managed Decline in an Age of Multipolarity: The Case of the Royal Navy in the Interwar Period G.H. Bennett  9. The Shifts in Global Naval Power, 1936–1946 Paul Kennedy  10. Danish Naval Evolution in the Arctic: Developments through the Unipolar Moment Timothy Choi  11. Multipolarity, Navies, and the Post-Cold War World Geoffrey Till  12. China in a Multipolar World Hu Bo  Afterword: Reflections on the Great War at Sea John H. Maurer