Navies in Multipolar Worlds

Paul Kennedy is J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, USA.Evan Wilson is an Assistant Professor in the John B. Hattendorf Center for Maritime Historical Research at the US Naval War College.

• Foreword Paul Kennedy Introduction Evan Wilson 1. French Sea Power in the Utrecht Era: "Balance of Power" and the Strategic Context of Louis XIV’s Navy Alan James 2. "A Brilliant Second": French Hybridization as a Great Power Brian C. Chao 3. British North Atlantic Convoys, 1812–14, and the Subsequent Rejection of the Convoy System Roger Knight 4. The Limits of Naval Power: Britain after 1815 Evan Wilson 5. David Lloyd George and the Contest for Naval Mastery: The American Challenge John H. Maurer 6. Japan’s Transition from a Maritime to a Continental Security Paradigm, 1928–1941 S.C.M. Paine 7. A Rising Power Facing Multipolarity: Italian Naval Policy and Strategy in the Age of Fascism Fabio De Ninno 8. Managed Decline in an Age of Multipolarity: The Case of the Royal Navy in the Interwar Period G.H. Bennett 9. The Shifts in Global Naval Power, 1936–1946 Paul Kennedy 10. Danish Naval Evolution in the Arctic: Developments through the Unipolar Moment Timothy Choi 11. Multipolarity, Navies, and the Post-Cold War World Geoffrey Till 12. China in a Multipolar World Hu Bo Afterword: Reflections on the Great War at Sea John H. Maurer

“Multipolar Worlds is an important correction to the fallacy that either multipolarity or complexity are new elements in maritime strategy. At a time when the world’s navies are struggling to understand the strategic and technological challenges they face, these essays provide insights into the historical and contemporary role of seapower that will be of value to decision makers at many levels.”-- RADM (ret.) James Goldrick, RAN