Port and Maritime Security and Sustainability

Maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region is strategically important to not only the surrounding states, but also those with an interest in its good governance, to support safe passage and natural resources extraction. Criminal threats, such as maritime piracy and illegal fishing, enabled by corruption and the potential for terrorism, undermine regional maritime security and therefore, there is incentive for states to respond cooperatively to secure the region. Drawing on broken windows crime theory, implicitly supporting the continuation of criminal threats within the region may enables exiting crimes to proliferate. With varying legal and political frameworks and interests across the Indo-Pacific region, achieving cooperation and harmonisation in response to regional maritime-based criminal threats can be challenging. As such, to respond to criminal threats that undermine maritime security, this article argues that from a criminological perspective, aligning states through existing international law enables cooperative regional responses. Indeed, given the prevalence of corruption within the region enabling serious criminal threats, harmonising through existing counter-corruption architecture may be a suitable platform to build from.

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The Sino-Indian Geopolitics and Maritime Security of the Indian Ocean Region

Strategic Analysis ◽

10.1080/09700161.2020.1870269 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Sainandan S. Iyer ◽

Ranadhir Mukhopadhyay ◽

Sridhar D. Iyer

Keyword(s):

Indian Ocean ◽

Maritime Security ◽

Indian Ocean Region ◽

Ocean Region ◽

The Indian Ocean

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A Generalized Options-based Approach to Mitigate Perturbations in a Maritime Security System-of-Systems

Procedia Computer Science ◽

10.1016/j.procs.2013.01.075 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 718-727 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nicola Ricci ◽

Adam M. Ross ◽

Donna H. Rhodes

Keyword(s):

System Of Systems ◽

Security System ◽

Maritime Security

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The EU’s Maritime Security Strategy: a Neo-Medieval Perspective on the Limits of Soft Security?

Croatian International Relations Review ◽

10.1515/cirr-2016-0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (75) ◽

pp. 9-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brendan Flynn

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Approach ◽

Trade Flows ◽

Maritime Security ◽

Maritime Trade ◽

Security Strategy ◽

Security Regime ◽

Critical Interpretation ◽

Maritime Strategy ◽

Soft Security ◽

The Eu

Abstract This paper offers a critical interpretation of the EU’s recent Maritime Security Strategy (MSS) of 2014, making distinctions between hard and soft conceptions of maritime security. The theoretical approach employed invokes the ‘EU as neo-medieval empire’ (Bull 1977: 254-255; Rennger 2006; Zielonka 2006). By this account, the main objectives of EU maritime strategy are stability and encouragement of globalised maritime trade flows to be achieved using the classic instruments of ‘soft maritime security’. While replete with great possibilities, the EU’s maritime security strategy is likely to be a relatively weak maritime security regime, which suffers from a number of important limits.

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