Power and the Maritime Domain: A Global Dialogue

This book offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-national approach to defining key elements required to define power within the maritime domain.

The volume engages with the concept that the maritime domain is a multi-dimensional space embracing oceans, seas, waterways, including all elements of maritime power, related activities, infrastructure, resources and assets. It illustrates the complexity and interconnectivity of the factors that contribute to the appreciation, creation, and application of maritime power. In practical terms, the book highlights that the maritime domain is a continuum that interconnects countries, cultures, politics, economics, trade, environment, knowledge, and technological power globally. Perhaps most importantly, the maritime domain generates power of its own volition, as well as acting as a critical enabler for the creation of other types of nations power: economic, political, military, technological, intelligence and fiscal power, in particular. The book not only brings those various factors to the reader’s attention but, in the synthesis, also clarifies the connections between the various elements in creating a greater maritime whole.

This book will be of great interest to students of maritime security, strategic studies and International Relations.

William de Sousa Moreira is a professor at the Brazilian Naval War College (BNWC). He is the ST&I Advisor and teaches at the Postgraduate Programme on Maritime Studies at the BNWC. He is also a Visiting Professor at King´s College London (2021-22).

Greg Kennedy is Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy, and the Director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham.