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Comment: The emerging spectrum of maritime security
Peter Cook
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020 · Most Cited: 2
The traditional view of maritime security is epitomised by warships, but this is a narrow and naive way to look at contemporary maritime security. Maritime security consists of several elements, as is white light…
Pirates, smugglers and corrupt officials – maritime security in East and West Africa
Dirk Siebels
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020 · Most Cited: 1
This paper provides an analysis of efforts to improve maritime security in East and West Africa. While maritime issues in general have been largely ignored in both regions over the past decades, they are increasingly re…
Polar Opposites
Peter Cook
Volume 03 Issue 02 · 18 Feb 2025 · Most Cited: 0
The frigid extremes of the planet are often ignored and largely misunderstood, even though they cover 11 million square miles (37.7 million square kilometres) and are often dismissed as uninhabitable, unimportant, froze…
The 2013 Yaounde code of conduct: an evaluation
Kabiru Tanimu
Volume 03 Issue 02 · 18 Feb 2025 · Most Cited: 0
This paper examines the Yaoundé Code of Conduct - the maritime Security framework of 2013 for countering piracy/sea robbery in West African states of the Gulf of Guinea. Premised against the pernicious and near p…
Seeing like a Pirate: The Entrepreneurship of Piracy in Southeast Asia
Tony Yuan Li
Volume 03 Issue 02 · 18 Feb 2025 · Most Cited: 0
Why has piracy flourished in Southeast Asia over the past decade? What are the underlying incentives for pirates, and how do these forces influence their operations? This paper explores these questions through the lens…
“Atlantic Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Shocking Story of the Pirates and the Survivors of the Morning Star”
Sarah Craze
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Cited: 0
“Maritime Crime and Policing”
Yarin Eski and Martin Wright
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Cited: 0
Maritime Security: Lost in Translation? Developing a Common Lexicon to Enhance Data Integrity and Global Maritime Domain Awareness
Evan Curt
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Cited: 0
With the proliferation of post-Cold War globalisation, the international community began to appreciate the immense importance of maritime security. In recent decades, numerous national, regional, and global information…
The Role of International Law in the Maritime Migration Security Assemblage: EU Activity in the Lampedusa Triangle
Charlie Pearson
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Cited: 0
This paper concerns itself with the configuration of security at sea, arguing that its implementation is not solely within the security actor’s control. Rather, maritime security configurations are constructed as…
Inhospitable Sea II. The Black Sea. the role of the Russian and Ukrainian navies and the widening war, October 2022 to mid-July 2023
Professor Chris Bellamy
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Cited: 0
Maritime crime and security resources online
Peter Cook
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
South China Sea Developments and Implications for Freedom of Navigation
Arabinda Acharya and Antara Desai
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
“Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea: Help or Hindrance?”
Malcolm D. Evans and Sofia Galani
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
Piracy and the Privatisation of Maritime Security: Vessel Protection Policies Compared
Eugenio Cusumano and Stefano Ruzza
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
A New AI-Driven Risk Assessment Tool for Investigating Insider Theft and Associated Maritime Crimes in a Southeast Asian Energy Company—A Case Study
Alex Martin • Ben Smith
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
Ever since criminal networks have recognized the profit in oil and energy pipelines, the theft of hydrocarbon-based products has jeopardized the stability and security of global regions. Although numerous pipeline…
Evaluation of the maritime security threats and issues to the future of the shipping industry – Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships
Tin Long Cheung
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
Nowadays traditional manned commercial sea-going vessels are facing several difficulties, including shipping accidents that are mainly caused by human errors and the shortage of seafarers with the associated increased m…
Maritime Security in the Real World: A Master Mariner's Perspective
Constantine Stathakis
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
‘Inhospitable Sea’ The Black Sea and the role of the Russian Navy in the Russia-Ukraine War to mid-September 2022
Professor Chris Bellamy
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 06 Nov 2022 · Most Cited: 0
Sources for maritime crime and security. Additional maritime crime and security resources online
Peter Cook
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Cited: 0
Global Britain in a competitive age. The Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy Presented to Parliament by the Prime Minister by Command of Her Majesty. March 2021.
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Cited: 0
The war for muddy waters: pirates, terrorists, traffickers and maritime security
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Cited: 0
The grim realities of a ship hijacking in the Gulf of Guinea
Spyridon Chiotis, MSc
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Cited: 0
This article is a distillation of the dissertation submitted for the author’s MSc in Maritime Operations and Management at City, University of London, submitted in 2019. In the summer of 2019, a Bulk Carrie…
Climate change and its challenges for the marine environment with special reference to ecological aspects in Bangladesh
Md. Abdul Alim
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Cited: 0
Climate change is predicted to have an extremely destructive effect on Bangladesh. Natural disasters may take place even more frequently and be greater in magnitude. A rise in sea levels could submerge a considerable pr…
The use of private maritime guards as an innovative means to fulfil states’ duty to cooperate in the repression of maritime piracy. Part Two
Katinka Svanberg
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Cited: 0
This article discusses the use of PCASPs as an alternative or additional layer of protection on board ships in the fight against maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea from an international law perspective based on le…