STRAITS – SOURCE OF MARITIME POWER AND SYSTEMIC CONTROL THROUGHOUT HISTORY
STRAITS – SOURCE OF MARITIME POWER AND SYSTEMIC CONTROL THROUGHOUT HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: The article approaches the strategic importance of maritime straits in the power equations of states found in the proximity of seas. The author offers a few examples from the ancient and recent history of the world, emphasising the primordiality of maritime control held by a littoral country or a country in the proximity of a strait. Thus, from the Ancient time until the age of globalisation, the power of state has been also generated by the maritime supremacy, a perspective motivated by the author providing a series of examples of states with maritime potential that have succeeded in developing economically, militarily and politically. Considering a radiography of the European states hegemony over the seas, the author emphasises the five systemic domination cycles identified by Polish Professor George Modelski illustrating the significance of maritime share in a state’s organisation and evolution, both from the security perspective and from the political and economic one.

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