Navigare Necesse Est! Maritimity and the Prospect of a Korean Blue Water Navy

Alexander supan (1847-1920), an austrian geographer. was a major contributor to germangeopolitics with his work guidelines of general political geography (leitlinien der allgemeinenpolitischen geogrephie). the quantitative aspect of his work consists of two innovations: (i) themaritimity quotient quantifying the relation of marlume-borders to land borders and (2) the pressure;quotient quantifying the relation of external pressure to itltemal pressure in terms of power.' in thispaper i use adaptations of these formulas to deliver results tor several countries that have relevancefor northeesr asia, explore the relationship to nlwel expenditure and, in the light of those results,discuss the implications and prospects for the two koreas,