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This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.
List of contents
Introduction: Surveying the Seascape
PART I: Perspectives on Maritime Security 1. Sea Power in the Transformation of States and Overseas Empires (1500-1800) 2. Maritime Security in a Critical Context 3. Maritime Strategy: 'Good Navies' and Realism Re-imagined 4. Modern Maritime Strategy and Naval Warfare 5. The Liberal Approach to Maritime Security 6. Global Maritime Security Governance 7. Maritime Security and the Law of the Sea 8. Maritime Securitisation 9. Gender Perspectives on Maritime Security 10. Global Political Ethnography: A Methodological Approach to Studying Maritime Security Governance 11. The Politics of Piracy Numbers: The Gulf of Guinea Case 12. Visual Representations of the Sea
PART II: Practices and Norms of Maritime Security 13. Human Rights and Law Enforcement at Sea 14. Humans at Sea: Migrants, Refugees and Transnational Responses 15. Contemporary Maritime Piracy and Counter-Piracy 16. Maritime Terrorism 17. Energy Security and Maritime Security 18. Maritime Cyber Security and Disruptive Technologies 19. The Nexus Between National Resource Governance and Transnational Maritime Crime 20. Fisheries Crimes, Poverty and Food Insecurity 21. Small Island Developing States and Maritime Security 22. Maritime Security and the Blue Economy 23. Securing Maritime Identities: The New Practices of Maritime Cultural Heritage 24. Non-state and Hybrid Actorness at Sea: From Narco-subs to Drone Patrols 25. The Privatisation of Maritime Security: Implications for International Security 26. NATO and Maritime Security in the North Atlantic 27. Maritime Security in the South Atlantic 28. Maritime Security in the Mediterranean 29. Maritime Security in Southeast Asia 30. Maritime Security in the South China Sea 31. Maritime Security in the Arctic
About the author
Ruxandra-Laura Böilc¿ is a Senior Research Fellow at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.
Susana Ferreira is a Lecturer at the Nebrija University, Director of the Master in Risk Management in Conflicts.
Barry J. Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Keele University, UK.
Summary
This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it.
