A.T.Mahan emphasizes the way to perform sea power is the way to apply navy strategy, which means a country¡¦s sea power is closely related to its national navy strategy development. Julian Corbett also argues that the main idea of navy's strategy lies in the competition of sea supremacy. Sea supremacy means a country keeps and controls the marine communication lines for its military and commercial purposes. The Communist China is facing changes domestically and internationally. The increasing dependence of economic growth on petroleum and natural gas import and maritime safety makes the Communist China has to guarantee the sea routes unblocked. Self-regarded as a big country along the seashore , the Communist China is promoting marine consciousness of the whole nation and the idea of sea power. The former navy chief commander Liu Hhua-qing had advocated constantly since the eighties ' to strengthen sea power and navy building. Since then, the Communist China has positively increased its domestic maritime activities in every field, which means it is now involved in more influence on the international order in the Asian-Pacific area. The thesis is mainly to analyse the Communist China¡¦s developing sea power on its relevant conditions, environments and concrete conduct. The thesis also studies and judges how China¡¦s sea power development influences the stability in the Asian-Pacific area. Focal points of the thesis include the truth of China¡¦s sea power development; whether the Communist China will develop the aircraft carrier fleet as being the rigional military and economic super power; the strategic consideration about Taiwan from American, Japanese and Chinese points of view; and whether the responses of the Asian-Pacific countries will cause the regional arm race and proliferation of weapons. The purpose of the thesis is to answer these questions.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): David S. Yost, Kenneth J. Hagan. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Systems Technology)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003. / Thesis advisor(s): D.C. Boger, R.M. Brown. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Thesis (M.A.)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2003. / Title from home page (viewed Feb. 17, 2004). Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print version.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2006. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 296-320.

Thesis (Master of Military Studies)-Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 2008. / Title from title page of PDF document (viewed on: Jan 8, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri State University, 2008. / "December 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-97). Also available online.

Thesis (M.S. in Systems Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, 2005. / Title from title screen (viewed Jan. 30, 2006). "December 2005." Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-84). Also issued in paper format.

Thesis (doctoral)-Universität, Kiel, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-277).

A presente dissertação tem como objetivo endereçar a relação existente entre a formulação teórica em estratégia marítima e o surgimento de paradigmas de desenvolvimento de políticas marítimas diversos, quais sejam de Supremacia Marítima e Segurança Marítima. Nesse sentido, o trabalho discorre sobre a evolução do pensamento estratégico marítimo argumentando que esta evolução do pensamento na conceituação, elaboração e refinamento dos elementos que constituem o Poder Marítimo e a Estratégia Marítima, permitiram a multiplicação de abordagens, e o estabelecimento de paradigmas para a implementação de políticas marítimas diferentes, especificas às necessidades e objetivos dos diferentes atores, que por sua vez, remetem às abordagens conceituais e teóricas. Para isto o trabalho percorre e organiza cronologicamente o desenvolvimento do pensamento em Estratégia Marítima desde o final do século XIX, até a atualidade, definido pelo recorte temporal (1890-2013). Em seu segundo momento o trabalho discorre, através da depuração e análise de casos das formulações políticas marítimas desenvolvidas em uma série definida de países em dois recortes temporais, quais sejam, EUA e URSS na Guerra Fria (1945-1980), e EUA, China e Austrália no pós- Guerra Fria (2000-2013), inferir as relações entre a formulação política empírica e suas raízes conceituais. O trabalho conclui que há uma relação direta entre a implementação de políticas marítimas com autores e conceitos específicos da Estratégia Marítima, sendo possível o estabelecimento de Paradigmas múltiplos para a interpretação e orientação da formulação e desenvolvimento de políticas marítimas. / This dissertation aims to address the relationship between the theoretical formulation in maritime strategy and the development of paradigms for different maritime policies, namely Maritime Supremacy and Maritime Security. In this sense, the work discusses the development of maritime strategic thinking arguing that the evolution of thinking in the conceptualization, development and refinement of the elements that constitute the Sea Power and Maritime Strategy, allowed the proliferation of approaches, and the establishment of paradigms for the implementation different maritime policies for specific needs and objectives of the different stakeholders, which in turn, refer to the conceptual and theoretical approaches. To do that, this essay studies and chronologically organizes the development of the maritime strategy thinking since the late nineteenth century to the present, defined by the time frame (1890-2013) . On a second part the paper discusses, through case analysis of maritime policy formulations developed in a defined number of countries in two time frames, namely , the U.S. and USSR during the Cold War (1945-1980) , and the U.S., China and Australia in the post-Cold War scenario (2000-2013), to infer the relationships between empirical policy formulation and its conceptual roots. The paper concludes that there is a direct relationship between the implementation of maritime policies with theoretical authors and specific concepts of Maritime Strategy, been possible to establish multiple paradigms to guide the interpretation and orientation for maritime policies’ formulation and development.