Global Challenges in Maritime Security

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From pirates to smugglers, migrants to hackers, from stolen fish to smuggled drugs, the sea is becoming a place of increasing importance on the global agenda as criminals use it as a theatre to conduct their crimes unfettered. This volume sets out to provide an introduction to the key issues of pertinence in Maritime Security today. It demonstrates why the sea is a space of great strategic importance, and how threats to security at sea have a real impact for people around the world. It examines an array of challenges and threats to security playing out at sea, including illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, irregular migration, piracy, smuggling of illicit goods, and cyber security, while also looking at some of the mechanism and role-players involved in addressing these perils. Each chapter provides an overview of the issue it discusses and provides a brief case study to illustrate how this issue is playing out in real-life. This book thus allows readers an insight into this evolving multidisciplinary field of study. As such, it makes for an informative read for academics and practitioners alike, as well as policymakers and students, offering a well-rounded introduction of the main issues in current Maritime Security.
 
Provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues in Maritime Security Demonstrates why the sea is a space of great strategic importance, and how threats to security at sea have a real impact for people around the world Includes a range of the main challenges to security at sea: illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and fisheries crime; smuggling of illicit goods; migration and human trafficking; piracy and armed robbery at sea; maritime boundary disputes; and cyber security at sea

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Lisa Otto

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Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Fisheries Crime Human Trafficking Maritime Boundary Disputes Port Security Maritime crime prevention Security at sea Cyber security at sea Piracy at sea Maritime terrorism

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“Otto’s edited volume is a useful handbook for scholars and students of maritime security and one of the very first publications on the expanded field. … this book represents a significant contribution to the recent scholarly discussion of maritime security and successfully raises awareness of the maritime domain as a global challenge in the twenty-first century.” (Edward Sing Yue Chan, Global Change, Peace & Security, August 21, 2020)

 
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