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Pirates, smugglers and corrupt officials – maritime security in East and West Africa
Dirk Siebels
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020 · Most Downloaded: 344
This paper provides an analysis of efforts to improve maritime security in East and West Africa. While maritime issues in general have been largely ignored in both regions over the past decades, they are increasingly re…
What are maritime crime and maritime security?
Chris Bellamy
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020 · Most Downloaded: 113
This paper explores what is meant by ‘Maritime Crime’ and ‘Maritime Security’, building on the work of Natalie Klein and Christian Bueger. The term Maritime Security means different things to dif…
The use of private maritime guards as an innovative means to fulfil states duty to cooperate in the repression of maritime piracy. Part 1
Katinka Svanberg
Volume 01 Issue 02 · 09 Nov 2020 · Most Downloaded: 110
This article discusses the use of PCASPs as an alternative or additional layer of protection on board ships in the fight against maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea from an international law perspective based on le…
The application of unmanned aerial vehicles in managing port and border security in the US and Kuwait: Reflections on best practice for the UK
Suwaid Al Abkal • Risto Talas • Sarah Shaw • Tom Ellis
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020 · Most Downloaded: 104
Purpose: This paper carries out an investigation into the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, in border security and their ability to enhance existing security measures in Kuwait’s ports…
Under whose flag? The race to dominate natural resources: an examination of the evolving power dynamics of superpowers and flag protectionism on global trade and maritime security
Eugen Mario Manole • Francia Kinchington
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020 · Most Downloaded: 65
Shipping is the lifeblood of world trade and the global economy, but in order to maintain its growth and manage its impact on the social-economic climate, agreement of global rules, specifically the flagging of its vess…
Maritime Security: Lost in Translation? Developing a Common Lexicon to Enhance Data Integrity and Global Maritime Domain Awareness
Evan Curt
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Downloaded: 55
With the proliferation of post-Cold War globalisation, the international community began to appreciate the immense importance of maritime security. In recent decades, numerous national, regional, and global information…
Book Review: Seapower States - Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict that Made the Modern World
Andrew Lambert
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 08 Mar 2020 · Most Downloaded: 54
Comment: The emerging spectrum of maritime security
Peter Cook
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 29 Feb 2020 · Most Downloaded: 53
The traditional view of maritime security is epitomised by warships, but this is a narrow and naive way to look at contemporary maritime security. Maritime security consists of several elements, as is white light…
The use of private maritime guards as an innovative means to fulfil states’ duty to cooperate in the repression of maritime piracy. Part Two
Katinka Svanberg
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Downloaded: 46
This article discusses the use of PCASPs as an alternative or additional layer of protection on board ships in the fight against maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea from an international law perspective based on le…
Evaluation of the maritime security threats and issues to the future of the shipping industry – Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships
Tin Long Cheung
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Downloaded: 44
Nowadays traditional manned commercial sea-going vessels are facing several difficulties, including shipping accidents that are mainly caused by human errors and the shortage of seafarers with the associated increased m…
A New AI-Driven Risk Assessment Tool for Investigating Insider Theft and Associated Maritime Crimes in a Southeast Asian Energy Company—A Case Study
Alex Martin • Ben Smith
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Downloaded: 37
Ever since criminal networks have recognized the profit in oil and energy pipelines, the theft of hydrocarbon-based products has jeopardized the stability and security of global regions. Although numerous pipeline…
The grim realities of a ship hijacking in the Gulf of Guinea
Spyridon Chiotis, MSc
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Downloaded: 36
This article is a distillation of the dissertation submitted for the author’s MSc in Maritime Operations and Management at City, University of London, submitted in 2019. In the summer of 2019, a Bulk Carrie…
The Role of International Law in the Maritime Migration Security Assemblage: EU Activity in the Lampedusa Triangle
Charlie Pearson
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Downloaded: 34
This paper concerns itself with the configuration of security at sea, arguing that its implementation is not solely within the security actor’s control. Rather, maritime security configurations are constructed as…
Vulnerability assessment of offshore terminals in the Sultanate of Oman: The case of a security audit for SPM Terminal of Mina al Fahal
Kambiz Mokhtari • Mehrdad Behforouzi • Kais Ali Hassan • SDS Dadwal • Arife Tugsan Colak
Volume 01 Issue 02 · 09 Nov 2020 · Most Downloaded: 33
Nowadays, the pressure for enhanced attention to critical infrastructure security and the focused concern on threats emanating from both domestic and foreign terrorist groups have fostered new challenges for Petrochemic…
Maritime security in East and West Africa: A tale of two regions by Dirk Siebels
Volume 01 Issue 02 · 09 Nov 2020 · Most Downloaded: 31
Sources for maritime crime and security Additional maritime crime and security resources online
Peter Cook
Volume 01 Issue 02 · 09 Nov 2020 · Most Downloaded: 29
Climate change and its challenges for the marine environment with special reference to ecological aspects in Bangladesh
Md. Abdul Alim
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Downloaded: 22
Climate change is predicted to have an extremely destructive effect on Bangladesh. Natural disasters may take place even more frequently and be greater in magnitude. A rise in sea levels could submerge a considerable pr…
“Maritime Crime and Policing”
Yarin Eski and Martin Wright
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Downloaded: 20
The 2013 Yaounde code of conduct: an evaluation
Kabiru Tanimu
Volume 03 Issue 02 · 18 Feb 2025 · Most Downloaded: 19
This paper examines the Yaoundé Code of Conduct - the maritime Security framework of 2013 for countering piracy/sea robbery in West African states of the Gulf of Guinea. Premised against the pernicious and near p…
Inhospitable Sea II. The Black Sea. the role of the Russian and Ukrainian navies and the widening war, October 2022 to mid-July 2023
Professor Chris Bellamy
Volume 03 Issue 01 · 31 Aug 2023 · Most Downloaded: 14
Seeing like a Pirate: The Entrepreneurship of Piracy in Southeast Asia
Tony Yuan Li
Volume 03 Issue 02 · 18 Feb 2025 · Most Downloaded: 11
Why has piracy flourished in Southeast Asia over the past decade? What are the underlying incentives for pirates, and how do these forces influence their operations? This paper explores these questions through the lens…
Maritime crime and security resources online
Peter Cook
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Downloaded: 10
From Sun Tzu to Hyperwar, a strategic encyclopaedia by Lars Wedin
Volume 01 Issue 02 · 09 Nov 2020 · Most Downloaded: 10
Global challenges in maritime security. An introduction by Lisa Otto
Volume 01 Issue 02 · 09 Nov 2020 · Most Downloaded: 10
The war for muddy waters: pirates, terrorists, traffickers and maritime security
Volume 02 Issue 01 · 05 Aug 2021 · Most Downloaded: 9
Book Review: China’s Vision of Victory
Jonathan D.T. Ward
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 11 Mar 2020 · Most Downloaded: 9
Review article: Russian and Soviet Submarine Training up to 2005 and implications
Volume 01 Issue 01 · 11 Mar 2020 · Most Downloaded: 8
Maritime Security in the Real World: A Master Mariner's Perspective
Constantine Stathakis
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 07 Nov 2022 · Most Downloaded: 7
‘Inhospitable Sea’ The Black Sea and the role of the Russian Navy in the Russia-Ukraine War to mid-September 2022
Professor Chris Bellamy
Volume 02 Issue 02 · 06 Nov 2022 · Most Downloaded: 6