Confused Seas: Searching for Maritime Security in an Insecure World
Lieutenant Commander Jimmy Drennan, USN
This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2020, Issue 2, in December 2020.
In 2008, the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, argued the world was entering an Age of Nonpolarity. He suggested the world had progressed from the bipolar Cold War era, past the unipolarity that followed the United States’ victory, and even the multipolar era of multiple competing nation states that many believed had emerged in the early 21st century. Although Haass underestimated the rise of China, more than a decade later many of his assertions prove remarkably prescient.
