The sea and International Relations is a path-breaking collection which opens up the conversation about the sea to International Relations (IR), and probes the value of analyzing the sea in IR terms. While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in IR, being treated either as a corollary of land or as time. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from IR, Historical Sociology, Blue Humanities and Critical Ocean Studies, The sea and International Relations breaks with this trend of oceanic amnesia, and kickstarts a...