EURASIA’S MARITIME RISE AND GLOBAL SECURITY: FROM THE INDIAN OCEAN TO PACIFIC ASIA AND THE ARCTIC (BOOK REVIEW)

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 86 - 88, 15.01.2019

Kanat Makhanov

Abstract

This book explores growing importance of Eurasian continent and of its maritime geography with a special focus on accelerating climate change. The melting of the Arctic Ocean would bring fundamental changes in the region’s economics, politics and security. The book is intended to describe the development of the maritime Eurasia in the context of the opening of the northern sea route and rising Asian economies.

Keywords

Eurasia, maritime route, climate change, trade, Arctic

References

• Geoffrey F. Gresh (Ed.), Eurasia’s Maritime Rise and Global Security from the Indian Ocean to Pacific Asia and the Arctic Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 303 pp.