Understanding maritime security / Christian Bueger, Timothy Edmunds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bueger, Christian, 1975- author.

Edmunds, Timothy, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea-power.

Maritime terrorism.

National security.

Sea control.

Piracy--Prevention.

Piracy.

Ships--Security measures.

Ships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

In 'Understanding Maritime Security', Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds offer a concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, or international disputes in the South China Sea, the authors show how to make sense of them by employing the core analytical frameworks that professionals use to understand maritime order. They also discuss future trends, emerging technologies, climate change, and the tectonic geopolitical shifts that are restructuring world order. It offers maritime security analysts, professionals, and students a comprehensive overview of maritime security and helps them connect the dots about its future.

Contents:

Cover

Understanding Maritime Security

Copyright

Contents

Preface

List of Abbreviations

1. Understanding Maritime Security

1.1 Why Maritime Security Matters

1.2 What Is Maritime Security?

1.3 The Key Characteristics of Maritime Security

1.4 The Opportunities of Maritime Security

1.5 How to Read This Book

2. A Short History of Security at Sea

2.1 Ocean History and the Evolution of Maritime Security

2.2 Four Struggles That Shape Security at Sea

2.3 The Rise of the Maritime Security Agenda

2.4 The Context for Maritime Security

3. Frameworks for Maritime Security Analysis

3.1 Thinking Tools and Analytical Frameworks

3.2 The Law of the Sea and Law-​Centric Frameworks

3.3 State-​Centric Frameworks: Interests and Institutions

3.4 Interpretive Approaches: Making Meaning, Understanding Practice

3.5 The Root Causes of Maritime Insecurity

3.6 Using Analytical Frameworks

4. Interstate Conflicts, Terrorism, and Grey Zones

4.1 Political Conflict in the Maritime Domain

4.2 Interstate Conflicts and Disputes

4.3 Maritime Terrorism and Extremist Violence

4.4 Grey Zones

4.5 Understanding Conflict and Terrorism at Sea

5. Blue Crime: Pirates, Smugglers, and Ecocriminals

5.1 The Variety of Crime at Sea

5.2 What Is Blue Crime?

5.3 The Perils of Piracy

5.4 Smuggling by Sea

5.5 Illicit Fishing and Other Environmental Crimes

5.6 Interlinkages

6. The Who's Who of Maritime Security

6.1 Actors in Maritime Security

6.2 What's In a State? Navies, Coast Guards, and Other Agencies

6.3 A Global Field: International and Regional Organizations

6.4 Profit: The Industry and Private Security Providers

6.5 More Than Protest? Nongovernmental Organizations and Activists

6.6 Integrating Maritime Security Actors

7. The Toolbox of Maritime Security Solutions

7.1 Identifying Solutions

7.2 Informality and Experimentalism

7.3 Operations at Sea

7.4 Maritime Security Strategies

7.5 Maritime Domain Awareness

7.6 Capacity-​Building

7.7 Using and Improving the Toolbox

8. New Challenges and a Look to the Future

8.1 The Evolving Maritime Security Environment

8.2 Automation and Cyber Security

8.3 Critical Infrastructure Protection: Ports, Cables, and Pipelines

8.4 Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

8.5 Between Planetary Thinking and Geopolitics

8.6 Fifth Wave or New Era?

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 3, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Bueger, Christian, 1975- Understanding maritime security

Print version:

ISBN:

9780197767177

0197767176

9780197767160

0197767168

9780197767184

0197767184

OCLC:

1424947974