This volume is the published proceedings of a conference held by Mississippi State University in Starkville MS in 2009, examining the need for maritime capacity building to ensure maritime security.
This volume is the proceedings of a seminar held in Canberra in 2003, updated to the present day, examining RAN planning for and operations in the Gulf from 1990 to 2009.
These two papers, by members of the Indonesian and Philippine navies respectively, discuss maritime issues relevant not only to their countries but to the wider region.
This volume surveys the development of the navies of the Indian sub-continent (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and Sri Lanka between 1945 and 1996. A number of constant themes emerged from their experience.
Maritime cyber-attacks constitute an added complexity on top of traditional maritime threats such as piracy, illegal activities, maritime terrorism and accidents at sea.
In the popular imagination, Australia is not a maritime nation. Australians remember the ‘Rats of Tobruk’, but the ‘Scrap Iron Flotilla’ that contested Hitler in the Mediterranean is unknown.
The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) has variously been labelled as ‘insecure and instable’, ‘a region that does not inspire confidence in the potential for peaceful governance’, ‘a disaggregated region notable for its lack of homogeneity’ and ‘a trouble
Pakistan and China have a multidimensional relationship, providing a good example of peaceful coexistence between two states with differing beliefs, social and political systems.
A spate of escalating hijackings in and around the east African coast between 2005 and 2012 thrust the Horn of Africa into the global spotlight and triggered an unprecedented international response.