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The Sea and International Relations The Sea and International Relations Edited by Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira Manchester University Press Copyright © Manchester University Press 2022 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 5261 5510 8 hardback First published 2022 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Cover image: Peder Balke, ‘Fugleflokk over opprørt hav/Stormy Sea’ (1870) Typeset by Newgen Publishing UK To Torbjørn, Dick and Yale Contents Contributors ix Preface and acknowledgements xiii Introduction: staring at the sea – Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira 1 1 International Relations’ sea sickness: a materialist diagnosis – Alejandro Colás 26 2 The symbolic space of the sea: mythologising a nation, performing an alliance – Maria Mälksoo 50 3 The white man and the sea? Gender, race and foundations of order – Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho 72 4 Boundaries in the sea: the production of political space in the early modern colonial Atlantic – Mark Shirk 96 5 Challenging order at sea: the early practice of privateering – Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira 118 6 A sea of connectivity and entanglement: modern mobilities and ancient thalassocracies in the Mediterranean Sea – Andonea Jon Dickson 146 7 Constructing insecure maritime spaces: navigational technologies and the experience of the modern mariner – Jessica K. Simonds 170 8 Obligations erga omnes and the common heritage of mankind under the Law of the Sea Convention – Filippa Sofia Braarud 199 viii Contents 9 Fishing for territory: historical International Relations and the environment – Kerry Goettlich 220 Conclusion: international terraqueous relations – Xavier Guillaume and Julia Costa López 244 Index 262 Contributors Filippa Sofia Braarud holds a Master of Arts in International Security from Sciences Po Paris and Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Justice from Leiden University College The Hague. Her academic interests lie at the intersection between international law, energy policy, technology and security. Benjamin de Carvalho is Research Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) in Oslo. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he worked on the reformations and state formation. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Empires, Privateering and the Sea Project (EMPRISE), funded by the Research Council of Norway, which this current volume is a part of. He has written extensively on early modern historical International Relations, and been active in the Historical International Relations section of the International Studies Association (ISA) since its inception and in a number of functions. His latest publications include Status and the Rise of Brazil (Palgrave Macmillan, co- edited with Maria Jumbert and Paulo Esteves, 2020). With Halvard Leira he has also co-e dited the four- volume Historical International Relations (SAGE, 2015), and the recently published Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations (with Halvard Leira and Julia Costa López, 2021). Alejandro Colás is Professor of International Relations in the Politics Department at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the co-a uthor, with Liam Campling, of Capitalism and the x Contributors Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World (Verso, 2021) and co- author of Food, Politics and Society: Social Theory and the Modern Food System (University of California Press, 2018). Julia Costa López is Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of International Relations at the University of Groningen. Her research interests lie at the intersection of International Relations and history of international political thought, particularly in the late- medieval and early modern periods. She is one of the editors of the Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations and her work has been published in journals such as International Organization, Review of International Studies, and International Studies Review. Andonea Jon Dickson is a doctoral candidate and teaching asso- ciate in the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London. Andonea’s research brings the mari- time to the fore in the analysis of migration regulation in the Mediterranean. By considering the human and non-h uman elem- ents in the regulation of human migration, her work emphasises the entanglements and mobilities which lead to migrants being contained and excluded in maritime geographies. Kerry Goettlich is lecturer in International Security at the University of Reading. He previously completed his PhD in International Relations at the London School of Economics, where he was an editor of Millennium: Journal of International Studies. His current project examines the historical emergence of scientific practices underlying modern territoriality, such as border surveying, as they emerged in seventeenth- century colonial North America and were globalised in the late nineteenth century. His work has appeared in the European Journal of International Relations and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Xavier Guillaume teaches at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, in the Department of International Relations and International Organisations.
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