Freedom of the Seas and US Foreign Policy

An Intellectual History

Connor Donahue (US Department of the Navy, USA)

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English

Routledge
05 April 2024

Military history; International relations; Naval forces & warfare; Defence strategy, planning & research; Law of the sea

Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series

This book critically analyzes US political-military strategy by arguing that freedom of the seas discourse is fundamentally unfit for an era of maritime great power competition.

The work conducts a genealogical intellectual history of freedom of the seas discourse in US foreign policy to show how the concept has evolved over time to facilitate American control over the global ocean space. It concludes that the contemporary discourse works to establish the high seas as an arena free from claims of sovereignty so that the United States, as the presumed unrivaled naval power, can intervene globally on behalf of its national interests. However, since sea control strategies depend on a preponderance of material force, as the United States wanes in relative material capability it becomes less able to support political-military strategies predicated on the assumption of global naval dominance. The book provides a timely commentary on the current geopolitical competition between the United States and China, and critiques the US approach toward China in the maritime domain in order to highlight potential avenues of foreign policy action that may enable the two countries to mitigate the risk of conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of naval history, maritime security, US foreign policy, and international relations.

By: Connor Donahue (US Department of the Navy USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.390kg
ISBN: 9781032451497
ISBN 10: 1032451491
Series: Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies Series
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 05 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Connor Donahue received his PhD from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his masters from King’s College London. He is currently working for the US Department of the Navy.