Book Presentation with Professor Colin Flint, Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower

Colin Flint is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Utah State University. He has published research on the topics of geopolitics, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, World War II, world-systems analysis, and just war theory. Flint will present his book Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower.

Near and Far Waters examines the histories of three naval powers (the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States), and distills the past and present patterns of seapower and their tendency to trigger repercussions of conflict and war. Near and Far Waters gives readers an appreciation for how geopolitics works, the importance of seapower in economic competition, the motivations behind China's desire to become a global naval force, and the risks of current and future wars. 

This book offers an accessible introduction to the combination of economic and political relations that are the reason behind, and the result of, the development of seapower to control near waters and project force into far waters.