Is Chile a Maritime Power
Abstract
Reacting to the long-running debate about the extent to which countries can be considered maritime, 'sea power states' or land-bound continental ones, this project takes Chile as a case study. Part of a larger project, these two chapters analyze two of the metrics that might be used for this assessment, the political and economic dimensions. The political chapter challenges the assumption often made that there is a correlation between liberalism and the maritime propensity by showing that some of Chile's major advances in this direction were made during periods of autocracy. The economic chapter shows that the economy's dependency on the sea as a source of resources and of transportation is but part of the story. It is the shape of that economy that matters more. Taken with other chapters on Chilean culture and history and its naval experience the overall work argues that Chile has the potential to be more maritime than it is, and that that is the general direction currently being taken.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1102352
Entities
People
- Christopher M. Green
Organizations
- Naval War College