The Making of a Maritime Power : Springer : 9789811094477 : 9811094470 : 29 Jun 2018 : This book is a valuable work of reference for the study of sea power, especially in China. It analyzes the challenges and problems facing China's sea power and offers a complete set of solutions known as ?sea exploitation.' In this context, it discusses five aspects of China's sea power: 1) It revises the notion of sea power and proposes a cost-benefit analysis framework for it. It holds that sea power is undergoing major changes, that multivariate completion and peaceful competition have become mainstream, that negative and zero-sum games have become positive sum games, and that the pursuit of control over the sea has gradually developed into efforts to establish dominance in a partnership. 2) By analyzing the increase in the benefits of China's sea power, the rise in the nation's ability-to-pay principle and the growth in the public expectation of China's capability of providing global public goods