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Balancing Strategy
Sea Power, Neutrality, and Prize Law in the Seven Years' War
Series: Cambridge Military Histories
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What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to explore how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage. Within the court, government...
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Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to show how neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare and how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage.
Balancing Strategy examines how neutrality and prize-law shaped eighteenth century maritime strategy, and the development of seapower.
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What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to explore how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage. Within the court, government officials and naval and legal minds came together to shape legal decisions from the perspectives of both legal philosophy and maritime strategic aims. As a result, neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare. Balancing Strategy unpicks a complex web of competing priorities: deals struck with the Dutch Republic and Spain; imperial rivalry; mercantilism; colonial trade; and the relationships between metropoles and colonies, trade, and the navy. Ultimately, influencing and shaping international law of the sea allows a nation to create the norms and rules that constrain or enable the use of seapower during war.
Series: Cambridge Military Histories
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ISBN: 9781009425551
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 December 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Illustration: Worked examples or Exercises
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Weight: 250g
Pages: 300
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About the Author
Anna Brinkman is a Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department at King's College London and co-director of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies. She is a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century maritime strategy and international law.
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