Great power clashes along the maritime silk road : lessons from history to shape current strategy / Grant F. Rhode.

Author/creator Rhode, Grant F. author.
Format Book
PublicationAnnapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2023]
Descriptionxiii, 343 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road : Cases and Modes of Explanation -- Chola Maritime Expansion to the Ganges, Sri Lanka, and Srivijaya : Rajendra Chola, Eleventh Century -- Limits on Mongol Maritime Expansion to Japan, Vietnam, and Java : Tran Hung Dao, Thirteenth Century -- Early Ming Voyages to the Western Ocean : Zheng He, Fifteenth Century -- Kunjali Marakkar Naval Resistance to the Portuguese on the Malabar Coast : Kunjali Marakkar, Sixteenth Century -- Limits on the Ottoman Navy in the Mediterranean Sea : Hayreddin Barbarossa, Sixteenth Century -- Japan's Thwarted Maritime Invasions of Korea : Yi Sun-sin, Sixteenth Century -- Ming Expulsion of the Dutch from Taiwan : Koxinga, Seventeenth Century -- Maratha Naval Resistance to the British on the Konkan Coast : Kanhoji Angre, Eighteenth Century -- Conclusion : Lessons from Eurasian Maritime History : Looking Back to Lean Forward.
Abstract "Current concerns in maritime Eurasia are centered on rising powers China and India. By way of background to understanding the current regional great power rivalry within maritime Eurasia, this book asks what we can learn from historic Eurasian maritime geopolitical players and their interactions that will inform and enlighten today's international relations practitioners. Great Power Clashes along the Maritime Silk Road examines three seminal historical cases of maritime clashes in the China Seas, four in the Indian Ocean, and one in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Each of these is an example of local or regional conflict reflecting the circumstances of time and place. The cases have been chosen to provide a comparative framework of significant premodern maritime clashes distributed along the full Eurasian maritime perimeter. Lessons include understanding struggles between continental and maritime powers in Eurasia, and understanding the decisive impact that naval leadership, intelligence, technology, alliances, and identity have had in the past and will have on the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Rhode, Grant F. Great power clashes along the maritime silk road Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2023] 9781682478677
Genre/formHistory.
Genre/formNaval history.
LCCN 2023030032
ISBN9781682478660 hardcover
ISBN1682478661 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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