Maritime Security
This topic currently groups 7 published articles across 4 issues.
Polar Opposites
Peter Cook
Volume 03 Issue 02 · 18 Feb 2025
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
Comment: The emerging spectrum of maritime security
Peter Cook
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020
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
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…
What are maritime crime and maritime security?
Chris Bellamy
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020
This paper explores what is meant by ‘Maritime Crime’ and ‘Maritime Security’, building on the work of Natalie Klein and Christian Bueger. The term Maritime Security means different things to dif…