Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues in Maritime Security
- Demonstrates why the sea is a space of great strategic importance, and how threats to security at sea have a real impact for people around the world
- Includes a range of the main challenges to security at sea: illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and fisheries crime; smuggling of illicit goods; migration and human trafficking; piracy and armed robbery at sea; maritime boundary disputes; and cyber security at sea
Part of the book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (ASTSA)
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“Otto’s edited volume is a useful handbook for scholars and students of maritime security and one of the very first publications on the expanded field. … this book represents a significant contribution to the recent scholarly discussion of maritime security and successfully raises awareness of the maritime domain as a global challenge in the twenty-first century.” (Edward Sing Yue Chan, Global Change, Peace & Security, August 21, 2020)
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Book Title: Global Challenges in Maritime Security
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Editors: Lisa Otto
Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34630-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34629-4Published: 22 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34632-4Published: 23 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34630-0Published: 21 April 2020
Series ISSN: 1613-5113
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9466
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 243
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Security Studies, Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space, Military and Defence Studies