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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Maritime Issues in the 1990s
Author: A Peaceful Ocean?
Author: Andrew MackPublisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN: 9781863735933
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Maritime issues dominate the security agenda in the Pacific in the 1990s. A large number of the key states in the region are islands, archipelagoes or peninsulas. Seaborne trade is growing rapidly and is of critical importance to almost all regional states. In the past decade the spread of 200 mile exclusive economic zones throughout the region has created new missions for regional navies. In part for this reason, regional maritime forces are being modernised and expanded as defence budgets rise. Some analysts talk of a regional arms race; others prefer the less emotive term of 'arms build-up'. All agree that the region's strategic future is uncertain. The central theme of this volume is the enhancement of maritime security in the Asia-Pacific. 'Spontaneous' naval arms control - the budget-driven reductions in American and Russian naval forces - and the debate within the region for and against naval arms control and confidence-building regimes are among the issues discussed. Maritime confidence-building measures, like the 1972 US-USSR 'Incidents at Sea Agreement' and the 1989 Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities agreement, are analysed in detail and their applicability to the region is considered. The major part of the book is taken up with analyses of the maritime security policies of regional states - China, Japan, Russia, the US, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia. The question of naval cooperation as a means of enhancing regional security is examined and re-examined throughout the study. Most authors are cautiously optimistic that progress can be achieved.
Moving the Marine Corps by Sea in The 1990s
Author: Michael B. BergerPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428987797
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Since the island-hopping campaign in the Pacific Ocean during World War II, the Marine Corps has viewed the ability to conduct amphibious assaults -- attacks launched from the sea against targets on land -- as its primary mission. In support of this mission, the U.S. Navy operates a fleet of 63 amphibious warfare ships that have been specially designed for amphibious operations. The Admin¿s. goal is to provide enough capacity to transport the assault echelons of one Marine Expeditionary Force & one Marine Expeditionary Brigade. This analysis addresses the Admin¿s. goals for amphibious ships & its plan for meeting those goals. Also discusses alternative strategies that require less funding, Illustrations.
Piracy in Southeast Asia
Author: Carolin LissPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1134819021
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
examines how piracy has evolved in Southeast Asia over the past 10 years and evaluates efforts to counter it features multidisciplinary ethnographic and theoretical approaches will be of much interest to students of maritime security, piracy, Asian politics, security studies and IR
Maritime History as Global History
Author: Maria FusaroPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786948923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This study aims to provide new insights into the connections between maritime history and global history. It demonstrates the significance of maritime activity as a conduit of global exchange by examining local, national, and international interdependencies and trade networks, and a broad range of time periods, geographical areas, and various sub-divisions of maritime historical research. It is composed of ten essays, with an introductory chapter and concluding chapter. The first five essays discuss the effects globalisation on shipping in the early modern period; the following three discuss maritime transportation and the economics of industrialisation from the nineteenth century to the present day; the next discusses the impact of global entrepreneurialism on maritime history; the penultimate discusses the connections and variables between maritime and global history; and the concluding chapter examines the theoretical assumptions surrounding the two disciplines, using the globalisation of Early Modern Spain as a case study to do so. The study demonstrates that the core strength of maritime history is its essential place in global history, and that the process of globalisation began at sea.
Maritime Trade & Transportation
Author: Review of Maritime Transport 2020
Author: United NationsPublisher: UN
ISBN: 9789211129939
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This series contains the decisions of the Court in both the English and French texts.
China's Maritime Disputes in the East and South China Seas
Author: U.S.-China Economic and Security Review CommissionPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781492991793
Category : Security, International
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Today's hearing will cover China's maritime disputes in the East and South China Seas. We'll examine the security, political, legal, and economic drivers of these disputes in our three panels today. The first panel will begin by discussing the broad security situation on the high seas. As China's maritime forces have become more capable over the past decade, Beijing has become more confident in its ability to assert its claims in the disputed areas. Beyond China's "hard" security concerns, however, other domestic, political, and legal elements shape China's policy in the East and South China Seas. Our second panel will consider popular nationalism as one of these elements. It has become a key driver of Chinese foreign policy as personality politics in Beijing has given way to a collective leadership seeking Party legitimacy. We'll conclude with a panel on how resources and economic drivers shape China's maritime disputes. Security of China's near seas is critical to the unimpeded flow of trade and imported energy resources. Though the natural resources in the East and South China Sea undoubtedly shape the security landscape, there appears to be a debate on the centrality of oil and gas resources to the dispute.
Looking for a Ship
Author: John McPheePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429958111
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Structuring the Marine Corps for the 1980's and 1990's
Author: John GrinaldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description