1st Edition

Power and the Maritime Domain A Global Dialogue

Edited By Greg Kennedy, William de Sousa Moreira Copyright 2023
352 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-national approach to defining key elements required to define power within the maritime domain. The volume engages with the concept that the maritime domain is a multi-dimensional space embracing oceans, seas, waterways, including all elements of maritime power, related activities, infrastructure, resources and assets. It illustrates the... Read more

Introduction

Greg Kennedy and William S. Moreira

Part I: Maritime as a Concept

1. The Global Order at Sea: From a Hierarchy of Power to Hierarchical Legitimacy?

Alessio Patalano

2. The Sea as an Institution: A Constructivist Approach to Maritime Spaces

Marcelo M. Valença and Daniel Edler Duarte

3. Beyond the Blue Amazon: The Brazilian Vocation to the South Atlantic

Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho

4. Maritime States and the Value of the Sea

José Augusto Abreu de Moura

Part II: Global and Regional Security at Sea

5. The Washington Naval Conference, 1921-22: A Blue-Print for a Modern Sino-American Naval Disarmament Agreement?

Greg Kennedy

6. Brazilian Naval Strategic Thought from 1822 to the Present

Francisco Eduardo Alves de Almeida

7. Islands, Amphibious Operations and the 21st Century

Geoffrey Till

8. The Role of the Domestic in Low-Intensity Maritime Conflict: A Cod Wars Perspective

William Reynolds

9. The Weaponisation of the Eastern Mediterranean: Refugees as the Trojan Horse for Diplomatic Bargaining

Anastasia Filippidou

10. State Cooperation for Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea

Victoria Mitchell

Part III: Technology and Economics in the Maritime Domain

11. Naval History, Maritime Strategy, and the Role of Technology

David Morgan-Owen and Richard Dunley

12. Welfare Gains in the Maritime Domain: A Comparative Analysis of Defence Industrial Policies and Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom and Brazil

Matthew Uttley, William S. Moreira and Sabrina E. Medeiros

13. The Evolution of Brazil’s Nuclear Program: Policy and the Multiple Drivers for the Nuclear-powered Submarine.

Nival Nunes de Almeida and Gustavo André Pereira Guimarães 

14. Blue Economy beyond Maritime Economics

Thauan Santos

Part IV: Law, Governance, and Futures of the Seas

15. The New Territorialisation of the Seas

André P. Beirão

16. Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships and the International Law of the Sea: A South Atlantic Perspective

Rafael Zelesco Barretto

17. The South Atlantic and Possible Future Armed Conflicts

Claudio M. Rodrigues

18. Futures for the Maritime Domain: Signs and Trends that Shape Scenarios

Adriano Lauro and Claudio R. Correa

Biography

William de Sousa Moreira is a professor at the Brazilian Naval War College (BNWC). He is the ST&I Advisor and teaches at the Postgraduate Programme on Maritime Studies at the BNWC. He is also a Visiting Professor at King´s College London (2021-22).

Greg Kennedy is Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy, and the Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham.