The Sea and International Relations

International Law

The Sea and International Relations

Edited by Dr Benjamin de Carvalho · Halvard Leira
Manchester University Press July 2022

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ISBN-13
9781526155108
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication
July 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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While the world's oceans cover more than seventy percent of its surface, the sea has largely vanished as an object of enquiry in International Relations (IR), being treated either as a corollary of land or as time. Yet, the sea is the quintessential international space, and its importance to global politics has become all the more obvious in recent years. Drawing on interdisciplinary insights from IR, Historical Sociology, Blue Humanities and Critical Ocean Studies, The Sea and International Relations breaks with this trend of oceanic amnesia, and kickstarts a theoretical, conceptual and empirical discussion about the sea and IR, by highlighting theoretical puzzles, analysing broad historical perspectives and addressing contemporary challenges. In bringing the sea back into IR, the book reconceptualises the canvas of international relations to include the oceans as a social, political, economic and military space which affects the workings of world politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction Staring at the sea - Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira
1. IR's sea sickness: a materialist diagnosis - Alejandro Colás
2. The symbolic space of the sea: mythologising a nation, performing an alliance - Maria Mälksoo
3. The white man and the sea? Gender, race, and foundations of order - Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho
4. Boundaries in the sea: the production of political space in the early modern colonial Atlantic - Mark Shirk
5. Challenging order at sea: the early practice of privateering - Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira
6. A sea of connectivity and entanglement: modern mobilities and ancient thalassocracies in the Mediterranean Sea - Andonea Dickson
7. Constructing insecure maritime spaces: navigational technologies and the experience of the modern mariner - Jessica K. Simonds
8. Obligations erga omnes and the common heritage of mankind under the Law of the Sea Convention - Filippa Sofia Braarud
9. Fishing for territory: historical IR and the environment - Kerry Goettlich
Conclusion: International terraqueous relations - Xavier Guillaume and Julia Costa López
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