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Book Review: Toward a New Maritime Strategy: American Naval Thinking in the Post-Cold War Era

commerce in artwork and cultural artifacts, people and commodities, including drugs and medicines, ranging from South East Asia to Central America. In drawing attention to the near ubiquity of smuggling in the contemporary world, this study concludes by arguing that it is closely connected with, and responsive to, geopolitical events. It is difficult to summarise such an extensive and richly-textured study which ranges from adventurers such as Drake to military agents like Oliver North. Although this work is not based on archival research, and in places its historical foundation might have been stronger, it presents a thought-provoking interpretation of smuggling, especially in its insistence on the significance of its romantic element. It is stronger on the cultural and social aspects of the subject, particularly its varied representation, than on its economic or commercial value. Within such a broad survey, the seaborne aspects of smuggling form only part of an enterprise that assumed different forms in diverse contexts, yet it contains material that will be of much interest to students of maritime history not least for its probing of the subtle nuances of smuggling practices and culture.