Winning Silver: Continental Great Powers And Naval Development
Journal: ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania)
Year: 2020

In the realm of geopolitics, one major question that preoccupies scholars and policymakers alike is whether China will surpass or challenge US domination of the international system; crucial to this discussion is the role of China’s developing navy. However, when one looks at the history of continental great-power naval development (a process called hybridization), one sees different outcomes. What explains the variation in outcome of continental great-power hybridization, and what are the lesso