The Indian Ocean is a region of great diversity, great potential and great importance. It is significant because of the global and intra-regional trade which passes through it and for the value of its marine resources.
This volume is the proceedings of a closed-door seminar held in Canberra in June 2009 (papers updated), in conjunction with the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security at the University of Wollongong, examining the legal issues
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