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Understanding Maritime Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Understanding Maritime Security

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.

Maritime Security Challenges in the South Atlantic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

Maritime Security Challenges in the South Atlantic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-12-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

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.

A Modern History of Maritime Terrorism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

A Modern History of Maritime Terrorism

A Modern History of Maritime Terrorism: From the Fenian Ram to Explosive-Laden Drone Boats is a comprehensive and insightful examination of the evolution of maritime terrorism in the modern era. Navigating the past, present and future of maritime terrorism, Peter Lehr outlines its history and definitions, its current manifestations, locations and actors, and its possible future trajectories.

Navies and Maritime Policies in the South Atlantic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

Navies and Maritime Policies in the South Atlantic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-12
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  • Publisher: Springer

This edited volume analyzes national security issues with maritime implications, and, specifically, naval projects and postures of main South Atlantic countries: Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, and South Africa. Additionally, it provides comprehensive and multi-level analysis of the interplay among national interests in the processes of demarcation of limits of the continental shelf and contention among Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, and the United Kingdom in the Southern Atlantic and the Antarctica. This book will interest scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of Latin American politics, regional studies, foreign and defense policy, and maritime security.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Military-Civil Fusion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Military-Civil Fusion

Examines the global interaction between military-civil fusion and the fourth industrial revolution, and how it affects military innovation.

Security Studies in a New Era of Maritime Competition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Security Studies in a New Era of Maritime Competition

How do two conventionally powerful, nuclear armed, but commercially oriented great powers, reliant on sea lanes and global maritime infrastructure, engage in a long-term strategic rivalry? When do such competitions lead to crisis instability and even war? This book presents a research agenda using a variety of methods to explore this unique competitive environment for China and the United States. The most likely great power friction points today are located at sea. Any shots fired between China and the United States will likely be between navies and air forces rather than armies. While much security studies understandably concentrates on land forces, basic concepts such as the importance of ...

African Navies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

African Navies

This edited volume focuses on aspects of the understudied theme of African sea-power, including African navies and the engagement of non-African navies with the continent. Africa possesses 48,000 kilometers of coastline, comprising 38 out of 54 of the continent’s states and several strategic choke points for international shipping, such as the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Aden and the Cape of Good Hope. Nevertheless, post-colonial Africa’s small navies and their relations with the navies of external powers have not received much scholarly attention. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa, this collection attempts to address this neglect and stimulate further research by offering original chapters rel...

Peace, Security and Defence Cooperation in Post-Brexit Europe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Peace, Security and Defence Cooperation in Post-Brexit Europe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

Highlighting the challenges and prospects of European security cooperation, this volume examines the impact of Brexit on strategic aspects of security, peace, defence and foreign policy for both the European Union and the UK. It applies theoretical and methodological approaches from international relations and security studies to analyse the causal mechanisms of security cooperation, and covers topics including innovative security technologies, defence procurement, EU-NATO relations, new capabilities frameworks (such as PESCO, EDF and EII), the role of French-German military cooperation, and the implications of Brexit for European deterrence or the Northern Ireland peace process. The findings contribute to a better understanding and management of anticipated challenges and sources of instability in post-Brexit Europe.

Strategic A2/AD in Cyberspace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 111

Strategic A2/AD in Cyberspace

This book examines how exclusion from cyberspace is possible and explores ways that states can respond to this threat.