This volume challenges the "Walled Kingdom" perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity

Maritime location of Canada has not been questioned by many generations of researchers. However, a quick look at the map or the coastline measurements do not always allow to identify the real sources of its inalienable properties. Canada ranks first in coastline in the world and is formally "the...

Pakistan has a very interesting geostrategic location. It can be easily considered as the base camp for all access routes in South Asia. These access routes work like ‘spatial-wormholes-on-land’ for a journey in all directions. Access to the Far East from Pakistan is as easy as moving to the...