Over the last few decades there has been growing recognition of the importance of a peaceful and stable South China Sea for Indo-Pacific security and development, a recognition that has been underlain, paradoxically, by the increasingly precarious situation in this body of water that straddles critical shipping lanes from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean. This book informs its readership of the most recent developments in the South China Sea with insightful and prescient analyses from both ...

A new framework contextualizes crucial international security issues at sea in the Indo-PacificCompetition at sea is once again a central issue of international security. Nowhere is the urgency to address state-on-state competition at sea more strongly felt than in the Indo-Pacific region, where freedom of navigation is challenged by regional states’ continuous investments in naval power, and the renewed political will to use it to undermine its principles.The New Age of Na...

The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged as a hinge point in the changing global balance of power and the geographic nexus of economic and security issues with vital global consequences. The security of energy supplies, persistent poverty and its contribution to political extremism, piracy, and related threats to seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and possibly the scene of future clashes between rising great powers India and China—all are dangers in the waters or in the littoral ...

A Summer Special Magazine of Science FictionJoin us on the beach with your plutonium powered bucket and spade.We have some great new stories from great writers such as Gary Gibson and Holly Schofield; interviews with Ken MacLeod and Tricia Sullivan; a new column by BSFA award winning writer Ruth EJ Booth; poetry from Shelly Bryant and Benjamin Dodds. We hav...

Middle East and North Africa brings together some of today's most influential analysts of a region which from colonial times to the present has seen great territorial change.

Global Boundaries considers conceptual, legal and geopolitical aspects of international borders and borderlands. This book also presents a detailed discussion of Antarctica, an area of global territorial dispute.