ABSTRACT
This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.
Written by leading international experts, this comprehensive volume presents a wide variety of theoretical positions on maritime security, detailing its achievements and outlining outstanding issues faced by those in the field. The book includes studies which cover the entire spectrum of activity along which maritime security is developing, including, piracy, cyber security, energy security, terrorism, narco-subs and illegal fishing. Demonstrating the transformative character and potential of the topic, the book is divided into two parts. The first part exhibits a range of perspectives and new approaches to maritime security, and the second explores emerging developments in the practice of security at sea, as well as regional studies written by local maritime security experts. Taken together, these contributions provide a compelling account of the evolving maritime security environment, casting fresh light on theoretical and empirical aspects.
The book will be of much interest to practitioners and students of maritime security, naval studies, security studies, maritime history, and International Relations in general.
Introduction: Surveying the Seascape PART 1: Perspectives on Maritime Security 1. Historical Perspectives: Seapower and the Formation of Empires and States 2. Maritime Security in a Critical Context 3. Maritime Strategy: ‘Good Navies’ and Realism Re-imagined 4. Modern Maritime Strategy and Naval Warfare 5. The Liberal Approach to Maritime Security 6. Maritime Security Governance 7. Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea 8. Maritime Securitisation 9. Gender Perspectives on Maritime Security 10. Anthropological and Ethnographic Perspectives to Maritime Security 11. Maritime Security and the Politics of Numbers: The case of Gulf of Guinea 12. Visual Representations of the Sea PART 2: Practices and Norms of Maritime Security 13. Human Rights and Law Enforcement at Sea 14. Humans at Sea: Migrants, Refugees and Transnational Responses 15. Contemporary Maritime Piracy and Counter-Piracy 16. Maritime Security and Terrorism 17. Energy Security and Maritime Security 18. Maritime Cyber Security and Disruptive Technologies 19. The Nexus Between National Resource Governance and Transnational Maritime Crime 20. Illegal Fishing, Poverty and Food Insecurity 21. Small Island Developing States and Maritime Security 22. Maritime Security and the Blue Economy 23. Building Maritime Identities: The New Practices of Maritime Cultural Heritage 24. Non-state and Hybrid Actorness at Sea: From Narco-subs to Drone Patrols 25. The Privatisation of Maritime Security: Implications for International Security 26. Maritime Security in the The North Atlantic 27. Maritime Security in the South Atlantic 28. Maritime Security in the Mediterranean 29. Maritime Security in Southeast Asia 30. Maritime Security in the South China Sea 31. Maritime Security in the Arctic
