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Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics

The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

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Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics

The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

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Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics by Kent E. Calder examines the strategic geography of the sea lanes from Northeast Asia through the Indian Ocean to Europe, through which much of the world's energy and information flow. Calder shows how changing technology and economic patterns have profoundly transformed the global significance of those passageways since the end of the Cold War, with fateful consequences for the strategic calculations of both the United States and a rising China. The decline of the US shipping and shipbuilding sectors, coupled with the rise of their Chinese counterparts, is a major part of this hybrid equation.

The book provides readers a history of the changing economic role of the sea lanes as well as the decline of US maritime competitiveness. It chronicles how maritime flows of energy, commodities, and information through submarine cables have increased. Calder's clear eyed assessment documents the uncertainties relating to Eurasian sea lanes stretching from Taiwan to the Red Sea and beyond in the post-Ukraine world.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Introduction

1 The Strategic Geography of Eurasia's Sea Lanes

2 The Changing Geo-Economics of the Sea Lanes

3 Linking Land and Sea: the Transformation of Eurasia's Rimlands

4 Guardians at the Gate: The Anglo-Saxons and the Indo-Pacific

5 The Challenger: China and Eurasia's Sea Lanes

6 The Stem of Victory: Infrastructure and the Sea Lanes

7 The Changing Chessboard of Sea-Lane Geopolitics

8 Shadows and Critical Uncertainties

9 Prospects and Policy Implications

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published Feb 07 2025
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 320
ISBN 9780815740759
Imprint Brookings Institution Press
Illustrations 7 b/w illustrations; 22 maps; 17 tables
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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