Maritime Sri Lanka Historical And Contemporary Perspectives

Author : Chulanee Attanayake
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811222054

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Maritime Sri Lanka: Historical And Contemporary Perspectives by Chulanee Attanayake Pdf

Being an island nation, the ocean is never too far from Sri Lanka. Situated right at the center of the world's busiest sea lanes of communication, the geography connects the country with the Indian Ocean, and its destiny is linked to this strategic body of water. For centuries, the Indian Ocean has been part of Sri Lanka's strategic, security, and political narratives. However, over the years, the country's involvement in the affairs of the Indian Ocean has retracted due to domestic and regional circumstances. Its consciousness of its ocean identity declined when it took an inward orientation which gave greater visibility to its South Asian identity, and its own imagination began to pivot towards the Indian hinterland. However, with the rising importance of the Indian Ocean in geopolitics, and with the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka's consciousness of its ocean identity has grown. Successive governments have formulated policies that would have paved its way to become the hub of the Indian Ocean, making the ocean the center of its economic development, maritime security, and defense relations. Amidst this backdrop, this book explores historical and contemporary perspectives on Sri Lanka's relations with the Indian Ocean.

Author : Nian Peng,Ghulam Ali,Yi Zhang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811658082

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Crossing the Himalayas by Nian Peng,Ghulam Ali,Yi Zhang Pdf

This book aims to analyze two contrasting trends of integration and rivalry among great powers and regional states of Himalaya. It examines the interactions between the great powers and the small states in the Himalayan region, analyzes the multiple effects of the great power rivalry on the regional cooperation, and predicts the possible directions of the future of the geo-politics and geo-economy in the Himalayan region by incorporating the most recent developments. The main content of the book is divided into 11 parts. The Introduction briefly explains the aims and scope of this book. The following chapter focuses on the Buddhist ties between China and the Himalayan states in the past two millennia and its dual influence in the Himalayan region. The rest 9 chapters provide an in-depth analyses of the security dilemma between China and India, Indian perspectives on China-South Asian relations, Chinese perspectives on U.S. and Japan's engagement with South Asia and Indo-Myanmar relations, and Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal's responses to the regional integration and great power rivalry in the Himalayan region respectively. This is the first study which brings the Himalaya region at the center of geopolitical and geo-economics cooperation and rivalry thus highlighting its significance in Asian politics. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the complicated geo-political and geo-economic competition in the Himalayan region by inviting experts from both South Asia and China to contribute chapters. It also balances the west-centered views on the great power rivalry by introducing cultural perspective and small state perspective. The broad approach adopted in the book with focus on all important countries expands the scope of readership beyond specific academic community. The book will interest academics, policy makers, journalists, general reader and students of Asian politics.

Author : John Kleinen,Manon Osseweijer
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814279079

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Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia by John Kleinen,Manon Osseweijer Pdf

"The chapters in this volume were presented in 2005 at an international conference hosted and organised by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences"--Acknowledgements.

Author : Joseph Christensen,Malcolm Tull
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401787277

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Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific by Joseph Christensen,Malcolm Tull Pdf

The waters of the Indo-Pacific were at the centre of the global expansion of marine capture fisheries in the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little has been written about this subject from a historical perspective. This book, the first major study of the history of fishing in Asia and Oceania, presents the case-studies completed through the History of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) initiative. It examines the marine environmental history and historical marine ecology of the Indo-Pacific during a period that witnessed the dramatic escalation of industrial fishing in these seas.

Author : Schottli Jivanta
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813238244

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Maritime Governance And South Asia: Trade, Security And Sustainable Development In The Indian Ocean by Schottli Jivanta Pdf

Five out of the eight South Asian countries have direct access to the Indian ocean, yet research tends to focus instead on the region's landmass. Much less attention is paid to the extensive maritime space that links South Asian countries, provides their populations with vital access to resources, connects their economies to global trade networks and perhaps most importantly, contributes to law and order at sea. At a time when the Indian Ocean has gained great interest and relevance for many global actors, the role and location of South Asia will have critical implications for strategic calculation and alignment. Furthermore, if trade imbalances are to be tackled and economic globalization to regain steam, enhancing South Asia's ability to export and import through the oceans is essential. Finally, climate change is projected to impact South Asia massively. Coping with humanitarian crises and natural disasters will need critical investments in maritime capacities and cooperation. This edited volume brings together multiple perspectives on contemporary maritime governance in South Asia, from practitioners, policy-makers and academics around the world. They examine India's role as South Asia's leading naval and economic power and the capacity of key actors to shape maritime order in the Indian Ocean. Contents: Foreword (Tommy Koh) Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Editorial Introduction (Jivanta Schoettli) Order: Security in the Indian Ocean (Shivshankar Menon) Sri Lanka's Role in the Indian Ocean and the Changing Global Dynamics (Harsha de Silva) Resolution of Maritime Boundary Disputes among Bangladesh, Myanmar and India in the Bay of Bengal (Md Khurshed Alam) Maritime Safety and Security and Development of the Blue Economy in the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) (K V Bhagirath) oes India Use Trade Effectively? (Frank Lavin) Leadership: India as a Net Security Provider in the Indian Ocean Region: The Strategic Approach of a Responsible Stakeholder (Abhay Kumar Singh) Does South Asia Use Trade Effectively? (Frank Lavin) Indonesia's Maritime Vision in the Indian Ocean: Negotiating National Interest and Regional Commitment (Adriana Elisabeth) The United States and the Indian Ocean: Power Shifts and Uncertain Leadership (Deepa M Ollapally) Institutions: New Maritime Governance and Cooperation Arrangements in the Eastern Indian Ocean: Challenges and Prospects (David Brewster) Organized Against Organized Maritime Crimes — The National Maritime Single Point of Contact(Martin A Sebastian RMN (R)) IORA, The Blue Economy and Ocean Governance (V N Attri) The Jakarta IORA Summit: A Way Ahead for a Stable Indian Ocean Maritime Order? (Yogendra Kumar) Prospects and Perspectives: The Indian Ocean and China's Expanding Influence: Prospects for Cooperation among the Key Asian Energy Importers (Christopher Len) Governing the Ocean: Perspectives from Tanzania (Hoseana Bohela Lunogelo) Governing the Ocean: An EU Perspective (Marianne Péron-Doise) Postscript: The Blue Economy Beckons (James Alix Michel) Readership: Undergraduate students of maritime studies, international relations and South Asian politics, and general readers interested in the South Asian region. Keywords: Indian Ocean;Maritime Governance;South Asia;India;Sri Lanka;Boundary;Blue Economy;IORA;Trade;Indonesia;Cooperation;Maritime Crime;ChinaRev

Author : Giorgio Borsa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Indian Ocean Region
ISBN : UCAL:B3838471

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Trade and Politics in the Indian Ocean by Giorgio Borsa Pdf

The Papers In This Volume Are Divided In Two Groups, One Dealing With Indian Ocean As A System Of Trade In The Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries, The European Penetration Into It And The Relations Between The European And Indian Merchant Groups, Etc., And The Other With Themes Like Super Power Rivalry In The Indian Ocean, Concept Of A `Peace Zone` In The Indian Ocean, The Approaches Of Ussr And Other Erstwhile Communist Countries To This Concept And A Historical Perspective Regarding India`S Aims And Objects In The Indian Ocean, Etc.

Author : Sujit Sivasundaram
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226790411

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Waves Across the South by Sujit Sivasundaram Pdf

"Per the UK publisher William Collins's promotional copy: "There is a quarter of this planet which is often forgotten in the histories that are told in the West. This quarter is an oceanic one, pulsating with winds and waves, tides and coastlines, islands and beaches. The Indian and Pacific Oceans constitute that forgotten quarter, brought together here for the first time in a sustained work of history." More specifically, Sivasundaram's aim in this book is to revisit the Age of Revolutions and Empire from the perspective of the Global South. Waves Across the South ranges from the Arabian Sea across the Indian Ocean to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and Australia's Tasman Sea. As the Western empires (Dutch, French, but especially British) reached across these vast regions, echoes of the European revolutions rippled through them and encountered a host of indigenous political developments. Sivasundaram also opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history in addition to the consequences of historical violence, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short"--

Author : Emily Erikson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691173795

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Between Monopoly and Free Trade by Emily Erikson Pdf

The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm’s employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why England experienced rapid economic development and how the relationship between Europe and Asia shifted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though the Company held a monopoly on English overseas trade to Asia, the Court of Directors extended the right to trade in Asia to their employees, creating an unusual situation in which employees worked both for themselves and for the Company as overseas merchants. Building on the organizational infrastructure of the Company and the sophisticated commercial institutions of the markets of the East, employees constructed a cohesive internal network of peer communications that directed English trading ships during their voyages. This network integrated Company operations, encouraged innovation, and increased the Company’s flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness to local circumstance. Between Monopoly and Free Trade highlights the dynamic potential of social networks in the early modern era.

Author : Michael N. Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134609598

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The Indian Ocean by Michael N. Pearson Pdf

In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and religions across the sea. The Indian Ocean moves from a discussion of physical elements, its shape, winds, currents and boundaries, to a history from pre-Islamic times to the modern period of European dominance. Going far beyond pure maritime history, this compelling survey is an invaluable addition to political, cultural and economic world history.

Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0824830164

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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age by Nira Wickramasinghe Pdf

Since the late 1970s civil war has left Sri Lanka in an almost permanent state of crisis; conventional histories of the country by liberal and Marxist scholars in the last two decades have thus tended to focus on the state’s failure to accommodate the needs and demands of the minorities. The entire history of the twentieth century has been tied to this one key issue. Sri Lanka in the Modern Age offers a fresh perspective based on new research. Above all, the author has written a history of the peoples of Sri Lanka rather than a history of the nation-state.

Author : Timothy Stapleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Navies
ISBN : 1032313196

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African Navies by Timothy Stapleton Pdf

This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent. Africa possesses 48,000 kilometers of coastline, comprising 38 out of 54 of the continent's states and several strategic choke points for international shipping, such as the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Aden and the Cape of Good Hope. Nevertheless, post-colonial Africa's small navies and their relations with the navies of external powers have not received much scholarly attention. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, this collection attempts to address this neglect and stimulate further research by offering original chapters related to historical and contemporary themes around Africa's navies. The historical chapters cover the origin of the Tanzanian, Ethiopian, Nigerian and Ghana navies during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, the asymmetrical naval campaign fought during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70), and the activities of the Soviet Navy in supporting African states and movements fighting lingering colonialism and white supremacy during the 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on the contemporary situation, other chapters discuss the engagement of the Indian Navy with Africa, the potential role of the Angolan and Mozambican navies in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the transformation and development of the post-apartheid South African Navy, and the challenges and capabilities of African navies in the early twenty-first century. The book concludes by discussing the question of whether African coastal countries need navies. This book will be of much interest to students of naval power, strategic studies, African politics and International Relations.

Author : Nira Wickramasinghe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190225797

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Sri Lanka in the Modern Age by Nira Wickramasinghe Pdf

On the ethnic relations and politics in post 1978 Sri Lanka.

Author : Ruth Barnes,David Parkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317793434

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Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology on the Indian Ocean by Ruth Barnes,David Parkin Pdf

Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity.

Author : Ranabir Chakravarti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : 8194786932

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The Pull Towards the Coast and Other Essays by Ranabir Chakravarti Pdf

This book presents nine essays and two appendices on both, the 'history of ' and the 'history in' the Indian Ocean prior to c.1500 CE by identifying the factors of change and continuity with reference to particular cases and overviews alike. The third largest maritime space, with the subcontinent and Sri Lanka at its centre, the Indian Ocean has been regularly traversed at least since the third millennium BCE. The book discards the notion of the perceived efficacy of Brahmanical taboos against Indic seafaring and the Eurocentric perspective of 'the age of discoveries', in the history of the Indian Ocean.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9389137411

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Comprehensive Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region by Anonim Pdf