PERSPECTIVES ON SEAPOWER AND INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS- THE CASE OF ROME AND CARTHAGE
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Received
17 August 2021
Revised
11 September
Accepted
26 October 2021
Available Online
15 November 2021
Abstract
THIS PAPER DEALS WITH PERSPECTIVES ON SEAPOWER AND INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS, FOCUSING ON SOME OF THE FUNDAMENTAL TREN DS WHICH CAN BE ENCOUNTERED IN THE EMERGENCE AS WELL AS THE EXPANSION OF OPEN MARITIME POLITIES. A LOOK AT THE ROMANO-CARTHAGINIAN CONFLICTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN WILL SHOW THE MANNER IN WHICH THE SEA AND SEAPOWER INFLUENCED THE POLITICS, CULTURE AND STRATE GIES OF BOTH POL ITIES, WH ILST ALSO AFFECTING THE EXISTING INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM. SIGNIFICANTLY, ROME AND CARTHAGE PROVIDE US WITH THE CASE STUDY OF TWO POLITIES IN SOME ASPECTS, COULD BE QUITE SIMILAR IN OTHERS. THUS, ROME OFFERS THE EXAMPLE OF A CONTINENTAL POWER WHICH UN DERSTOOD ITS GRADUAL CONQUEST OF THE SEA IN MILITARY TERMS AND OF A SOCIETY WHICH, IN VICTORY AND EXPANSION, COLLAPSED IN ON ITSELF AND EVENTUALL BECAME A HEGEMON OF THE MEDITERRANEAN -CENTRIC INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM. BY CONTRAST, CARTHAGE, ORI GINALLY A MONARC HY AND TH EN A REPUBLIC, WAS ALSO A COMPARATIVELY OPEN SOCIETY, A WEALTH -BASED OLIGARCHY AND MARITIME POWER WHICH WAS FORCED BY ROMAN PRESSURE TO TEMPORARILY BECOME CONTINENTAL, IMPERIAL, AND THEN RETURN TO ITS MARITIME ROOTS AND BECOME YET MORE OPEN AND DY NAMIC UNTIL ITS FORCEFUL INTEGRATION IN THE NEW ROMAN-LED INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM.
Keywords
SEAPOWER
INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS
ROME
CARTHAGE
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