Bruce Elleman is an Associate Professor in the Maritime History Department in the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the US Naval War College, and most recently author of Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795-1989 (Routledge, 2001), Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question (M.E.Sharpe, 2002), and co-editor with Chris Bell of Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century: An International Perspective (Frank Cass, 2003).

Sarah C.[...] is an Associate Professor in the Strategy & Policy Department at the US Naval War College and author of Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontiers (M.E. Sharpe, 1996) and The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy (Cambridge, 2002). Current research interests include a book project on Japanese-Soviet rivalries over northeast Asia from 1931 to 1949.

Part 1. Blockades and Seapower 1. Introduction 2. Naval Blockade and International Law Part II Blockades Through World War II 3. Napoleon's Continental Blockade:an Effective Substitute to Naval Weakness? 4. The Flawed British Blockade: 1812-1815-Wade Dudley 5. The Crimean War Blockade: 1854 - 1856 6. The Union Navy's Blockade Reconsidered 7. The First Sino-Japanese War: Japanese Destruction of the Beiyang Fleet, 1894-1895 8. The Naval Blockade of Cuba during the Spanish-American War 9. World War I: The Blockade 10. Japanese Naval Blockade of China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941 11. Naval Blockade and Economic Warfare in the European War, 1939-1945 Part II. Blockades After World War II 12. The Nationalist's Blockade of the PRC, 1949-1958 13. Air and Sea Power in Korea: A Failed Blockade, 1950-1953 14. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 15. Naval Blockades during the Vietnam War 16. Britain's Broken Blockade against Rhodesia: The Beira Patrol 17. The 1982 Falklands War: SLOCs and Sidewinders 18. Maritime Sanctions Enforcement Against Iraq, 1990-2003 19. Ballistic Missiles in China's anti-Taiwan Blockade Strategy 20. 'To disrupt, deter and deny': Sealing Australia's Maritime Borders Part IV Contemporary Blockade Strategy 21. Technology and Naval Blockade 22. Naval Blockades and the Future of Seapower