Is Maritime Security a Traditional Security Challenge?

2016 ◽  
pp. 59-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Chapsos
Keyword(s):  
Maritime Security ◽  
Security Challenge

scholarly journals Sub-regional Maritime Security Challenges: A Cooperative Approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Udai Rao
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Cooperative Approach ◽  
Important Region ◽  
Security Challenges ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
Security Challenge ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
India And China

The Indian Ocean Region has today emerged as the most important region of strategic concern. With India and China trying to establish their clout over this region and using it to propel themselves to the title of a Superpower. Indian Ocean becomes an interesting site for maritime security studies. This article attempts to trace the different areas of concern for all the stakeholders involved in the management of this sub-regional maritime security challenge. Maritime cooperation and security would ensure secure and safe seas which in turn would allow resurgence of our economies in a mutually beneficial manner. The sub-regional grouping with Maldives and Sri Lanka has to transcend beyond the South Asia sphere,  encompassing  Seychelles and Mauritius and would be a ‘Bottom Up Approach’ to shaping the maritime strategic environment in the Indian ocean.

scholarly journals Piracy off the coast of Somalia: implications for China’s maritime security

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manickam Venkataraman
Keyword(s):  
Task Force ◽  
International Community ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Internal Problem ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
Security Challenge ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
To Come ◽  
Economic Ties

Piracy off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden in the Indian Ocean region has become a significant non-traditional security challenge to many nations. The increasing number of such attacks as a result of failure of Somali government to tackle its internal problem drew the attention of international community who lent a drastic response thereby curtailing the number of such incidents significantly now. The intensity of the attacks had its implications on international shipping and maritime security of near and distant countries like China, which has of late become assertive. This article aims to analyze the inter-connection between failed states and piracy and the consequent maritime security implications for China. The article adopts qualitative approach using descriptive and analytical methods depending primarily on secondary sources such as published literatures and archival and internet sources. The article concludes that the implications of Somalia piracy to China’s maritime security was so grave that China was compelled to join the international community by taking part in the multinational naval task force to combating piracy signifying a cooperative role and at the same time utilizing the opportunity to come closer to Somalia by way of reopening its embassy and engaging in bilateral economic ties. This article is divided into seven broad sections. Besides the introduction, the second section provides the conceptual note on piracy and maritime security. The third section highlights the methodology while the fourth section discusses the background on Somalia and its failed status while the fifth section brings out a short glimpse of Somalia piracy and its method of operation. The sixth section analyzes the role of China and its maritime security implications and the last section provides the concluding remarks.

scholarly journals Into the sea: capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-246
Author(s):  
Christian Bueger ◽  
Timothy Edmunds ◽  
Robert McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Security Challenge

What are maritime crime and maritime security?

2020 ◽  
Vol 01 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Bellamy ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Maritime Security

Conference Report: Maritime Security in East Asia

1996 ◽  
Vol 1996 (89) ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Sam Bateman
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Maritime Security

Criminal Threats Undermining Indo-Pacific Maritime Security: Can International Law Build Resilience?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-220
Author(s):  
Jade Lindley
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
International Law ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Maritime Security ◽  
Broken Windows ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Maritime Piracy ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Crime Theory ◽  
Criminological Perspective

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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