Navies in Multipolar Worlds
Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present
Edited By Paul Kennedy, Evan Wilson
ISBN 9780367427221
Published October 16, 2020 by Routledge
278 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
Description
Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges.
The book follows the theme of multipolarity by analysing a wide range of historical and geographical case studies, thereby maintaining the focus of both its historical analysis and its policy implications. It begins by looking at the evolution of French naval policy from Louis XIV through to the end of the nineteenth century. It then examines how the British responded to multipolar threat environments, convoys, the challenges of demobilization, and the persistence of British naval power in the interwar period. There are also contributions regarding Japan’s turn away from the sea, the Italian navy, and multipolarity in the Arctic. This volume also addresses the regional and global distribution of forces; trade and communication protection; arms races; the emergence of naval challengers; fleet design; logistics; technology; civil-naval relations; and grand strategy, past, present, and future.
This book will be of much interest to students of naval history, strategic studies and international relations history, as well as senior naval officers.
Partial Table of Contents
Foreword
Paul Kennedy
Introduction
Evan Wilson
1. French Sea Power in the Utrecht Era: "Balance of Power" and the Strategic Context of Louis XIV’s Navy
Alan James
2. "A Brilliant Second": French Hybridization as a Great Power
Brian C. Chao
3. British North Atlantic Convoys, 1812–14, and the Subsequent Rejection of the Convoy System
Roger Knight
4. The Limits of Naval Power: Britain after 1815
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