Eurasia’s Maritime Rise and Global Security: From the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic (Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security)

This book explores Eurasia's growing embrace of its maritime geography from the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic. In an age of climate change, the melting of the Arctic will transform Eurasia's importance, in addition to influencing the political, economic, and military dynamics across Eurasia's main maritime regions. These emerging shifts have already begun to alter maritime trade and investment patterns, and thus the global political economy. It also creates a rising threat to the current status quo of world order that has long been dominated by the Atlantic World. This edited volume showcases some of the world's leading experts and examines Eurasia from a saltwater perspective, analyzing its main maritime spaces in a threefold manner--as avenue, as arena, as source--to show the significance of this geostrategic change and why it matters for the future of the world's oceans. Geoffrey F. Gresh is Department Chair and Associate Professor of International Security Studies at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.-- Provided by publisher Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii Introduction: Why Maritime Eurasia? (Geoffrey F. Gresh)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-16 Strategic Maritime Chokepoints: Perspectives from the Global Shipping and Port Sectors (Rockford Weitz)....Pages 17-29 Chokepoints of the Western Indian Ocean, China’s Maritime Silk Route, and the Future of Regional Security (Geoffrey F. Gresh)....Pages 31-48 The Economics of Somali Counterpiracy: Assessing Counterpiracy Measures for International Shipping Companies (Jelmer D. Ikink)....Pages 49-66 The Rise of an Indo-Japanese Maritime Partnership (Sea Sovereign Thomas)....Pages 67-82 The Fastest Way Across the Seas: Cyberspace Operations and Cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific (Jonathan Reiber)....Pages 83-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-96 Forgotten Borders: Japan’s Maritime Operations in the Korean War and Implications for North Korea (Sung-Yoon Lee)....Pages 97-112 Blurred Lines: Twenty-First Century Maritime Security in the South China Sea (Joseph A. Gagliano)....Pages 113-127 Sea Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta (Zachary White)....Pages 129-146 The Great Convergence: Maritime Supremacy, Energy Primacy, and the Oceanic Coalition in Asia (Stephen A. Lambo)....Pages 147-180 Front Matter ....Pages 181-182 The Coming Arctic Boom: As the Ice Melts, the Region Heats Up (Scott G. Borgerson)....Pages 183-195 Public and National Imagination of the Arctic (Derek Kane O’Leary)....Pages 197-213 Arctic Fisheries Management in the Twenty-First Century (Elliot Creem)....Pages 215-233 Security Competition Rising: Renewed Militarization of the High North (Ethan Corbin)....Pages 235-258 Tackling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the International Maritime Industry (Aaron L. Strong)....Pages 259-273 Back Matter ....Pages 275-288 "This book explores Eurasia's growing embrace of its maritime geography from the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic. In an age of climate change, the melting of the Arctic will transform Eurasia's importance, in addition to influencing the political, economic, and military dynamics across Eurasia's main maritime regions. These emerging shifts have already begun to alter maritime trade and investment patterns, and thus the global political economy. It also creates a rising threat to the current status quo of world order that has long been dominated by the Atlantic World. This edited volume showcases some of the world's leading experts and examines Eurasia from a saltwater perspective, analyzing its main maritime spaces in a threefold manner: as avenue, as arena, as source, to show the significance of this geostrategic change and why it matters for the future of the world's oceans"--Back cover