THE UK, A MARITIME POWER? • • METHOD 1
Stage 1 - Introduction: presenting the documents
Similarities: Both documents deal with the UK as a global maritime power that is to say ...def..., focusing on geostrategy, on a world scale.
Differences: The 1st document is an article by Rob Clark about British foreign policy returning east of Suez, published in UK Defence JournalNews on October 10, 2019 whereas the 2nd document is a map of UK overseas bases posted on Wikipedia.com website.
Announce structure: In a 1st part I’ll show how the UK secured the Atlantic region & in a 2nd part I’ll explain how it recently reinforced its Indo-Pacific presence.
Stage 2 - Analysing the documents
DESCRIBING - What you see (docs) |
INTERPRETING - What you know (facts & notions) |
1. From securing the Atlantic... thanks to §1 & map |
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Article P1. Atlantic, west of Suez, regional scale : |
- Brexit (def) + hard power (def) + multilateralism (def) |
2. … to reinforcing its Indo-Pacific presence with §2 & map |
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Article P2 New move east of Suez = more global : |
- in the Persian Gulf : new base in Bahrein (facts) |
Stage 3 - Concluding
Assess docs (reliable/biased justified): To conclude, these documents are reliable although we don't have the map full references ; article biased (ambitions, nothing -) whereas map unbiased as it describes the facts.
Sum-up ideas These docs show UK’s growing naval ambitions from securing the Atlantic and Mediterranean to asserting its presence in the Indo-Pacific, so truly global ambitions, which could stretch naval forces despite Royal Navy’s new equipment.
+ Open We may wonder if UK’s maritime economic policy is as ambitious as its naval geostrategy.