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Umbrella term for maritime issues

Maritime security is an umbrella term informed to classify issues in the maritime domain that are often related to national security, marine environment, economic development, and human security. This includes the world's oceans but also regional seas, territorial waters, rivers and ports, where seas act as a “stage for geopolitical power projection, interstate warfare or militarized disputes, as a source of specific threats such as piracy, or as a connector between states that enables various phenomena from colonialism to globalization”. The theoretical concept of maritime security has evolved from a narrow perspective of national naval power projection towards a buzzword that incorporates many interconnected sub-fields. The definition of the term maritime security varies and while no internationally agreed definition exists, the term has often been used to describe both existing, and new regional and international challenges to the maritime domain. The buzzword character enables international actors to discuss these new challenges without the need to define every potentially contested aspect of it. Maritime security is of increasing concern to the global shipping industry, where there are a wide range of security threats and challenges. Some of the practical issues clustered under the term of maritime security include crimes such as piracy, armed robbery at sea, trafficking of people and illicit goods, illegal fishing or marine pollution. War, warlike activity, maritime terrorism and interstate rivalry are also maritime security concerns. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Maritime securityA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Risk Assessment for Maritime Container Transportation SecurityInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Treaties, etcThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: What is maritime security?Cited 288 times
  5. Go sideways: Piracy in the Gulf of GuineaA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Operation AtalantaA closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History of maritime security
  2. Regulatory environment
  3. Practical issues of maritime security
  4. Theoretical approaches to maritime security
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