Maritime Security Challenges in the South Atlantic

This edited volume focuses on the South Atlantic regional and national issues with maritime implications: naval policy, security, transnational organized crime, and Europe's legacy and current influence. The work analyzes the positions in favor and against NATO's extended role in the South Atlantic, the historical and current issues related to the Falklands War, the African national deficits, and initiatives to attend the regional maritime problems. Including contributions from Angolan, Brazilian, Senegalese, and US collaborators, the volume offers eclectic conceptual frameworks, rich historical backgrounds, updated data, original analysis models, and policy recommendations.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Facing the Transnational Criminal Organisations in the South Atlantic.- 3. The Impacts of Neo-Colonial Security Frameworks in the South Atlantic: The Case of French Presence in Western Africa.- 4. The Possibility of NATO and Portuguese Presence in the South Atlantic Ocean.- 5. Antarctica as a South Atlantic Maritime Security Issue.- 6. Reflections on the Ends, Ways, and Means of Maritime Security Cooperation in the South Atlantic.- 7. The African Way of Warfare and its Challenge to the South Atlantic Security.- 8. Conclusion.

About the author

Érico Duarte is Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Manuel Correia de Barros is Founder and Deputy Chairman at the Center for Strategic Studies of Angola, Angola.

Summary

This edited volume focuses on the South Atlantic regional and national issues with maritime implications: naval policy, security, transnational organized crime, and Europe's legacy and current influence. The work analyzes the positions in favor and against NATO’s extended role in the South Atlantic, the historical and current issues related to the Falklands War, the African national deficits, and initiatives to attend the regional maritime problems. Including contributions from Angolan, Brazilian, Senegalese, and US collaborators, the volume offers eclectic conceptual frameworks, rich historical backgrounds, updated data, original analysis models, and policy recommendations.

Product details

• Authors: Manuel Correia de Barros, Éric Duarte, Érico Duarte
• Assisted by: Correia de Barros (Editor), Correia de Barros (Editor), Manuel Correia de Barros (Editor), Éric Duarte (Editor), Érico Duarte (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783030052720
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3005272-0
• No. of pages: 225
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 444 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 225 p. 5 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Globalization, Political Science, International Relations, Regional Development, Political Science and International Studies, Economic development, Regionalism, Development Studies, International Security Studies, Security, International, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics, Geopolitics;South Atlantic;Global South;Brazil;Naval Policy