Table of Contents
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