1st Edition
Freedom of the Seas and US Foreign Policy An Intellectual History
By Connor Donahue
Copyright 2024
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
