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1 - Sea Power and Strategy

from Part I - Sea Power and Its Relationship to Strategy and Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2024

Anna Brinkman
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King's College London
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The opening chapter provides the necessary context for both the development of British prize law and how law has, or has not, been treated in maritime strategic thinking. It provides a conceptual analysis of how and why law should be incorporated into maritime strategic thought. The conceptual part of the chapter argues that law and sea power cannot be divorced for two principal reasons. First, sea power is the vehicle through which a state is able to transform domestic maritime law into international maritime law. Second, the maritime strategic considerations of a nation drive negotiations over international maritime law in an attempt to either constrain, or expand, the rights of a sea power. The extent to which maritime nations are able to influence those negotiations depends on the relative qualities of their sea power.

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Balancing Strategy
Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years' War
, pp. 23 - 38
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Sea Power and Strategy
  • Anna Brinkman, King's College London
  • Book: Balancing Strategy
  • Online publication: 25 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009425599.003
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  • Sea Power and Strategy
  • Anna Brinkman, King's College London
  • Book: Balancing Strategy
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  • Sea Power and Strategy
  • Anna Brinkman, King's College London
  • Book: Balancing Strategy
  • Online publication: 25 April 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009425599.003
Available formats
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