From Seapower to Shining Seapower

Academics are fond of evading the cyclical tendencies of history with clever aphorisms about how history “rhymes” or parodiesitself. Nobody wants to assert the presence of deterministic forces of history, yet we would be unwise to fully reject them. As of  2025 we appear to be heading full steam into dark times. Not only is the United States in rapid, secular decline vis-à-vis China and its authoritarian allies, the liberal world order is crumbling.