Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower - Paperbackby Colin Flint (Author) Seapower has been a constant in world politics, a tool through which powerful countries have policed the seas for commercial advantage. Political geographer Colin Flint highlights the geography of seapower as a dynamic, continual struggle to gain control of near waters those parts of the oceans close to a country's shoreline and far waters parts of the oceans beyond the horizon and that neighbor the shorelines of other