Pub Date : 2020-01-31DOI: 10.4337/9781788971416.00006
Sofia Galani, Malcolm D. Evans
The seas and oceans cover 70 per cent of the earth’s surface, and 90 per cent of world trade is by sea.1 The oceans have always been a source of power and wealth for states who have been keen to delimit their own maritime limits, but states have also sought to ensure that the high seas remain open to all users. Major maritime nations have enjoyed a military advantage over smaller coastal and landlocked states by using and controlling the maritime domain for the purposes of navigation, commerce and naval warfare. Economic benefits from the development of the blue economy agenda have also become added to the exploitation of fisheries and of marine natural resources, which have traditionally contributed to the economies of states.2 Nevertheless, the continuing economic development of the oceans has been overshadowed by increasing maritime security threats. While traditional forms of inter-state disputes regarding the use and delimitation of their maritime zones remain, new maritime security threats posed by non-state actors have
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This article examines the rise of maritime security in concept and practice. We argue that developments in the maritime arena have flown beneath the radar of much mainstream international relations and security studies scholarship, and that a new agenda for maritime security studies is required. In this article we outline the contours of such an agenda, with the intention of providing orientation and direction for future research. Our discussion is structured into three main sections, each of which outlines a core dimension of the maritime security problem space. We begin with a discussion of the issues and themes that comprise the maritime security agenda, including how it has been theorized in security studies to date. Our argument is that the marine environment needs to be understood as part of an interlinked security complex, which also incorporates strong connections between land and sea. Second, we examine the ways in which maritime security actors have responded to these challenges in practice, focusing on issues of maritime domain awareness, coordination of action, and operations in the field. Third, we turn to the mechanisms through which the new maritime security agenda is being disseminated to local actors through a processof devolved security governance. We focus particularly on efforts to distribute knowledge and skills to local actors through capacity building and security sector reform. In the conclusion, we outline the future challenges for maritime security studies that follow from these observations.
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