Global Maritime Chokepoints: Oceans, Trade and the Geopolitics of Power in the Twenty-First Century, written under supervision of the geopolitical expert Artur Victoria for the Ocean Geopolitics Centre, examines the narrow maritime passages upon which an extraordinary proportion of global trade, energy security and strategic mobility depends.
Moving across the world's principal maritime gateways - from Gibraltar and the Turkish Straits to Suez, Bab El-Mandeb, Hormuz, Malacca and Panama?the book demonstrates how geography continues to shape international power despite the technological sophistication of the global economy. Particular attention is given to the Bering Strait as an emerging geopolitical chokepoint, where Arctic transformation may increasingly bring American, Russian and Chinese strategic interests into proximity.
Rather than treating chokepoints simply as geographical features, Artur Victoria analyses them as spaces where commerce, naval power, sovereignty, infrastructure, security and political risk converge. Disruption in one narrow passage can generate consequences across distant markets and continents.
The book ultimately reveals a central paradox of contemporary globalisation: while the world economy has become increasingly interconnected and geographically extensive, its maritime foundations remain concentrated in a remarkably small number of vulnerable passages. Understanding these gateways is therefore essential to understanding the geopolitics of twenty-first-century power.
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Artur Vitória is a Portuguese writer and involved in several associative activities
Education ? He graduated in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in 1974 and is a graduate of the National Defence Institute in Lisbon, Portugal (1990). Dedicated to his academic career, in 1980 he became a researcher at the Foreign Relations Observatory of the Autonomous University of Lisbon.
Commends:
D. Afonso Henriques Medal - Army Merit 2nd Class with Commendation on 6th November 2015.
Medal of the Cross of Saint George on 18 June 2020.
honorary orders
Knight of the Order of Rio Branco on 7 December 2022.
Knight of the Order of Naval Merit on 11 June 2019.
Officer of the Order of Naval Merit on 11 June 2021.
Knight of the Order of Aeronautical Merit on 23 October 2016.
Officer of the Order of Aeronautical Merit on 23 October 2020.