Maritime Power and Globalization

📋 Course Outline

1. Maritime power and globalisation
2. The Arctic as a contested frontier
3. Global shipping routes and chokepoints
4. Ocean resources and economic uses
5. Tourism, migration and piracy
6. Coastalisation and Indian Ocean rivalry
7. France as a maritime power
8. Maritime conflicts and the South China Sea
9. UNCLOS and maritime governance
10. Shipping emissions and future challenges

📖 1. Maritime power and globalisation

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Globalisation : Globalisation is the worldwide integration of economies and societies through flows of goods, people, money, and information.
• Oceans as spaces of trade and power : Oceans are strategic spaces where trade, resources, migration, conflict, and governance shape global power.
• Exclusive Economic Zone : An Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) gives a coastal state specific resource rights up to 200 nautical miles while others keep navigation freedoms.
• Global Value Chains : Global Value Chains (GVCs) are production networks whose links depend on maritime transport for movement and timing.

📝 Essential Points

• 80–90% of world trade by volume travels by sea.
• Maritime routes underpin GVC links between major economies and continents.
• Coastal areas host 3 billion+ people within 100 km of a coast.
• Undersea cables carry 99% of global internet data, tying sea control to information connectivity.
• Maritime chokepoints can paralyse world trade when blocked.