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Global Challenges in Maritime Security

An Introduction

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Editors:
  1. Lisa Otto

    1. SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa

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  • 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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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introducing Maritime Security: The Sea as a Geostrategic Space

    • Lisa Otto
    Pages 1-11

  3. Oceans and Blue Economies

    • Ken P. Findlay
    Pages 13-31

  4. Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing as a Maritime Security Concern

    • Mercedes Rosello
    Pages 33-47

  5. Smuggling and Trafficking of Illicit Goods by Sea

    • Carina Bruwer
    Pages 49-73

  6. Migration, Seafarers and the Humanitarian-Security-Economic Regimes Complex at Sea

    • Amaha Senu
    Pages 75-94

  7. Maritime Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea

    • Lisa Otto, Leaza Jernberg
    Pages 95-110

  8. Maritime Boundaries and Maritime Security

    • Victoria Mitchell
    Pages 111-126

  9. Cybersecurity at Sea

    • Polychronis Kapalidis
    Pages 127-143

  10. Maritime Terrorism

    • Lisa Otto, Suzanne Graham, Adrienne Horn
    Pages 145-159

  11. Port Security

    • Risto Talas
    Pages 161-172

  12. The Successes and Struggles of Multilateralism: African Maritime Security and Strategy

    • Timothy Walker
    Pages 173-190

  13. The Role of Navies in the Contemporary Era

    • Francois Vreÿ, Mark Blaine
    Pages 191-210

  14. Non-state Actors in the Maritime Domain: Non-state Responses to Maritime Security Challenges

    • Carolin Liss
    Pages 211-228

  15. Connecting the Dots: Implications of the Intertwined Global Challenges to Maritime Security

    • Anja Menzel, Lisa Otto
    Pages 229-243
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About this book

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.

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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)

 

Editors and Affiliations

  • SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa

    Lisa Otto

About the editor

Lisa Otto gained her PhD in Political Studies from the University of Johannesburg in 2016 and holds a MA in International Peace and Security from King’s College London’s War Studies Department. Presently working as a Senior Researcher / Lecturer at the NRF-SARChI Chair in African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg, Lisa was previously employed at Coventry University, where she was responsible for teaching on the world’s only MA specifically in Maritime Security. She has worked in think tanks and political risk institutions. Otto has specialised in issues affecting Africa, particularly those related to conflict, security and foreign affairs. Her research interests have largely revolved around non-traditional threats to security, where she has developed specific expertise in the emerging field of Maritime Security. 

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