Seapower in the Post-modern World

A comprehensive and systematic analysis of the concept and practice of seapower from antiquity to today.

While naval operations, maritime security, and ocean governance are increasingly relevant in world politics, seapower is largely neglected by international relations scholarship. Seapower in the Post-modern World fills this gap with a comprehensive analysis of the concept and practice of seapower from antiquity to the contemporary era.

Basil Germond is professor of international security and co-director of the Security Research Institute at Lancaster University.

Basil Germond is professor of international security and co-director of the Security Research Institute at Lancaster University.

“Germond is a major figure in the field and provides a deft guide to changing ideas about seapower from Antiquity to the present." RUSI Journal

“Highly innovative, this book offers a new conception of seapower. It engages with classical authors but does not reduce its thinking to them. Instead, Basil Germond offers a range of creative and productive new models and typologies for thinking about seapower that are sure to inspire military theorists and naval practitioners, as well as those interested in global ocean politics.” Christian Bueger, University of Copenhagen