An Analysis Of The Causes Of Formation Of Navy In Landlocked Countries

There are 44 landlocked countries in the world. Some landlocked countries set up Navy force, five of them has even established a comprehensive organizational navy as a separate force. It seems unnecessary for these landlocked countries to develop an separate navy force or non-independent marine units. So this paper will try to answer this interesting question, why does some landlocked countries choose to set up Navy force? Unfortunately, current research researches only provide limit explanations from the aspects of geopolitical and special historical reasons without direct and systematic answer to this question.This paper selects eight landlocked countries(Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uganda, Serbia, Laos) as the research object to analyze this issue. Additionally, it mainly applies the Historical path dependence principle of the Path dependence theory and integrates geopolitics reason with the influence of the special historical events to explain this issue. According to my research, all landlocked countries has such kind of perception that no coastline is a huge flaw or short board for a country. In the past hundred years, landlocked countries have been kept on asking: How can they access to the sea. Therefore under this profound self-perception, whenever there is enough energy, opportunities and suitable geographical conditions, landlocked countries will choose to develop Navy force to access to the sea. In landloceked countries, these countries with the inherent advantages of naval tradition and inheriting military legacy and has more advantageous geographical conditions more easily set up a complete establishment Navy under the influence of special historical events.