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Cass Series: Naval Policy and History


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This series consists primarily of original manuscripts by research scholars in the general area of naval policy and history, without national or chronological limitations. 

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African Navies Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Timothy Stapleton
May 27, 2024

This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent. Africa possesses 48,000 kilometers of coastline, comprising 38 out of 54 of the continent’s states and several strategic choke...

Maritime Gray Zone Operations Challenges and Countermeasures in the Indo-Pacific

Maritime Gray Zone Operations: Challenges and Countermeasures in the Indo-Pacific

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Andrew S Erickson
May 27, 2024

This book addresses the issues raised by Chinese and North Korean maritime ‘gray zone’ activities in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. For years, China has been harassing its neighbors in South China Sea and East China Sea, employing both coast guard and maritime militia forces, in the name of ...

Naval Constabulary Operations and Fisheries Governance An Integrated Approach for the Australian Maritime Domain

Naval Constabulary Operations and Fisheries Governance: An Integrated Approach for the Australian Maritime Domain

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Sean A. G. Andrews
May 07, 2024

This book offers an analysis of naval constabulary operations, in particular Australian fisheries patrols, and challenges the widely accepted Anglo-American school of maritime thought. In the Indo-Pacific, fisheries and the activities of fishing boats are of increasing strategic importance in ...

The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition: Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

1st Edition

By James J. Wirtz, Jeffrey E. Kline, James A. Russell
December 22, 2023

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material, this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general, and U.S. Navy ...

Recovering Naval Power Henry Maydman and the Revival of the Royal Navy

Recovering Naval Power: Henry Maydman and the Revival of the Royal Navy

1st Edition

Edited By John Hattendorf, Geoffrey Till
November 30, 2023

This book offers a new edition of Henry Maydman’s work Naval Speculations with a detailed commentary by two leading experts on its importance to the naval issues of the 21st century. Written at a revolutionary and troubling time, Maydman’s 1691 book offers an analysis of the state of the Royal Navy...

How to Grow a Navy The Development of Maritime Power

How to Grow a Navy: The Development of Maritime Power

1st Edition

By Geoffrey Till
September 02, 2022

This book examines the large but neglected topic of the development of maritime power from both an historical and a contemporary point of view. Navies have never been more important than they are now, in a century becoming, as widely expected, increasingly and profoundly maritime. The growing ...

Navies in Multipolar Worlds From the Age of Sail to the Present

Navies in Multipolar Worlds: From the Age of Sail to the Present

1st Edition

Edited By Paul Kennedy, Evan Wilson
May 06, 2022

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previous eras of multipolarity grappled with similar challenges. The book follows the theme of multipolarity by analysing a wide range of historical and ...

Exercising Control of the Sea Theory and Practice

Exercising Control of the Sea: Theory and Practice

1st Edition

By Milan Vego
April 29, 2022

This book explains both the strategic and the operational aspects of exercising control of the sea. The struggle for sea control consists of three mutually related and overlapping phases: obtaining, maintaining and exercising sea control. It is in the phase of exercising sea control when one’s ...

Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939 Planning for War Against Japan

Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East 1919-1939: Planning for War Against Japan

1st Edition

By Andrew Field
July 02, 2004

Between the ending of the Great War and the start of the Second World War in 1939, the Royal Navy remained the largest in the world. But with the League of Nations seeming to offer a solution to all future conflicts, a country weary of war and without an obvious enemy there seemed no need for a ...

The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 1942-1947

The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 1942-1947

1st Edition

By Chris Madsen
February 27, 1998

After the bitter lessons of German self-disarmament in 1919, Britain was far more alert and focused when it came to overseeing the disarmament of Germany's naval forces after World War II. This book shows how well-prepared the British were second time around....

Chinese Maritime Power in the 21st Century Strategic Planning, Policy and Predictions

Chinese Maritime Power in the 21st Century: Strategic Planning, Policy and Predictions

1st Edition

By Hu Bo
September 11, 2019

This book analyses China’s maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction. This book explains the construction and application of China's military, political, economic and diplomatic means for building maritime power, and ...

India-China Maritime Competition The Security Dilemma at Sea

India-China Maritime Competition: The Security Dilemma at Sea

1st Edition

Edited By Rajesh Basrur, Anit Mukherjee, T.V. Paul
May 14, 2019

This edited volume critically examines the concept of the “security dilemma” and applies it to India–China maritime competition. Though frequently employed in academic discussion and popular commentary on the Sino-Indian relationship, the term has rarely been critically analysed. The volume ...

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