Eurasia’s Maritime Rise and Global Security

Geoffrey F. Gresh is Department Chair and Associate Professor of International Security Studies at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

• 1. Introduction: Why Maritime Eurasia?.- 2. Strategic Maritime Chokepoints: Perspectives from the Global Shipping and Port Sectors.- 3. Chokepoints of the Western Indian Ocean, China’s Maritime Silk Route, and the Future of Regional Security.- 4. The Economics of Somali Counterpiracy: Assessing Counterpiracy Measures for International Shipping Companies.- 5. The Rise of an Indo-Japanese Maritime Partnership.- 6. The Fastest Way Across the Seas: Cyberspace Operations and Cybersecurity in the Indo-Pacific.- 7. Forgotten Borders: Japan’s Maritime Operations in the Korean War and Implications for North Korea.- 8. Blurred Lines: Twenty-First Century Maritime Security in the South China Sea.- 9. Sea Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta.- 10. The Great Convergence: Maritime Supremacy, Energy Primacy, and the Oceanic Coalition in Asia.- 11. The Coming Arctic Boom: As the Ice Melts, the Region Heats Up.- 12. Public and National Imagination of the Arctic.- 13. Arctic Fisheries Management in the Twenty-First Century.- 14. Security Competition Rising: Renewed Militarization of the High North.- 15. Tackling Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the International Maritime Industry.