Near and Far Waters - 9781503639645

Near and Far WatersThe Geopolitics of Seapower\nAuthor(s): Colin Flint\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503639645, 978-1503639645\nSynopsis\nSeapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Political geographer Colin Flint highlights the geography of seapower as a dynamic, continual struggle to gain control of near watersthose parts of the oceans close to a country's shorelineand far watersparts of the oceans beyond the horizon and that neighbor the shorelines of other countries. A forceful and clarifying challenge to conventional accounts of geopolitics, Near and Far Waters offers an accessible introduction to the combination of economic and political relations that are the reason behind, and the result of, the development of seapower to control near waters and project force into far waters.\n\n Examining the h.