ABSTRACT
The focus of this book on “emerging navies” is naturally and inevitably on the expanding navies of the “new” East. Comparisons are often drawn between them and the apparently diminishing navies of what might, in similar style, be called the “old West.” Nonetheless, the navies of the U.S., Britain, France, Canada and the other members of the North Atlantic alliance provide not just a benchmark for the seemingly irresistible rise of the emerging navies of Asia and, indeed, of Brazil and other non-traditional naval powers too, but to some extent they also offer an alternative vision of the way in which navies are to be developed. In Europe in particular, conceptions of future naval power are much less focused on deterring or prosecuting inter-state war and rather more on dealing with disorder, rogue states and elements, terrorism and maritime crime, in the shape of piracy and drugs and people smuggling.
