Joachim Krause - Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security

This new handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the issues facing naval strategy and security in the twenty-first century.

Featuring contributions from some of the worlds premier researchers and practitioners in the field of naval strategy and security, this handbook covers naval security issues in diverse regions of the world, from the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean to the Arctic and the piracy-prone waters off East Africas coast. It outlines major policy challenges arising from competing claims, transnational organized crime and maritime terrorism, and details national and alliance reactions to these problems. While this volume provides detailed analyses on operational, judicial, and legislative consequences that contemporary maritime security threats pose, it also places a specific emphasis on naval strategy. With a public very much focused on the softer constabulary roles naval forces play (such as humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, naval diplomacy, maintenance of good order at sea), the overarching hard-power role of navies has been pushed into the background. In fact, navies and seapower have been notably absent from many recent academic discussions and deliberations of maritime security. This handbook provides a much-desired addition to the literature for researchers and analysts in the social sciences on the relationship between security policy and military means on, under, and from the sea. It comprehensively explains the state of naval security in this maritime century and the role of naval forces in it.

This book will be of much interest to students of naval security and naval strategy, security studies and IR, as well as practitioners in the field.

Joachim Krause is Professor of Political Science at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany, and has published more than 20 books, including, most recently, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Western Strategy (Routledge, 2013, co-edited with Charles King Mallory IV).

Sebastian Bruns is Director of the Center for Maritime Strategy and Security at the Institute for Security Policy, University of Kiel (ISPK), Germany.

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF NAVAL STRATEGY AND SECURITY

Edited by Joachim Krause and Sebastian Bruns

First published 2016
by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2016 selection and editorial material, Joachim Krause and Sebastian Bruns; individual chapters, the contributors

The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Routledge handbook of naval strategy and security / edited by Joachim Krause and Sebastian Bruns.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Naval strategyHandbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Sea-power. 3. Naval history, Modern21st century. I. Krause, Joachim, 1951 editor. II. Bruns, Sebastian, 1982 editor.

V163.R67 2016

359.40973dc23 2015025489

ISBN: 978-1-138-84093-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-73257-2 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo
by Out of House Publishing