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Maritime Security in Ghana: The next steps

  • 30th April 2022
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Tackling maritime insecurity in order to enhance the blue economy, restore ocean health, but also to strengthen blue justice, continues to be one of the major challenges for today’s governments. Much attention is being paid to these ocean challenges in … Continue reading

Policy brief – Negotiating Capacity Building: The case of maritime security projects in Ghana

  • 16th November 2021
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The Gulf of Guinea is a global hotspot for maritime insecurity. Ghana, a country in this region, has had its share of blue crime in its waters. This makes it a relevant object of study partly because the country continues … Continue reading

Policy brief – “Simplifying Complexities: Interagency Coordination in Ghana’s Maritime Security Governance”

  • 28th June 2021
  • by Scott Edwards
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The Gulf of Guinea is a global hotspot for maritime insecurity. The recent surge in piratical attacks in the region, but also the spread of the menace into Ghana’s maritime domain has catapulted the subject of maritime security governance into … Continue reading

SafeSeas comment – “Jersey fishing dispute: why the UK sent in the navy and how to resolve the spat”

  • 10th May 2021
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By Scott Edwards & Tim Edmunds. Article originally published in The Conversation On the morning of Thursday 6 May, French fishers threatened to blockade Jersey’s main port of St Helier, following a threat by French maritime minister Annick Girardin to … Continue reading

The ‘icebreaker-gap’ – how US icebreakers are assigned new, symbolic roles as part of an escalating military competition in the Arctic

  • 5th January 2021
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By Lin A. Mortensgaard & Kristian Søby Kristensen, Centre for Military Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen Under construction: “The largest icebreaker in the world” In the high summer of 2020 U.S. President Donald J. Trump suddenly spoke … Continue reading

What the Nave Andromeda incident tells us about UK maritime security

  • 30th October 2020
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Scott Edwards & Tim Edmunds On October 25th at around 10am, just off the coast of the Isle of Wight, seven stowaways turned violent and threatened the crew of the Nave Andromeda, sparking concerns of a hijacking and intervention by … Continue reading

Project Kraken at 13: Has the UK’s Naval Neighbourhood Watch Failed?

  • 11th September 2020
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Summer 2020 was a miserable one on the Channel. On 19 August, it was confirmed that a migrant’s life was  lost, one week after the deployment of  a Royal Air Force ‘submarine hunter’, a Boeing P8-A Poseidon, to the Channel … Continue reading

Using crime script analysis to better understand piracy manifestations

  • 26th August 2020
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By Bryan C. Peters Despite the undeniable social relevance of piracy, criminologist have lagged behind other fields in its study. In 2009, Forsyth, Gisclair and Forsyth aptly noted that, “most criminologists are landlocked…as if crime on the water did not … Continue reading

Why are more small boats crossing the English Channel – and why are border forces struggling to stop them?

  • 16th August 2020
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By Tim Edmunds and Scott Edwards The number of migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats has increased significantly – up to 4,343 this year compared with 857 in the same period last year. The number of lurid headlines … Continue reading

Mauritius oil spill: Was the government unprepared?

  • 14th August 2020
  • by Christian Bueger
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Was Mauritius taking the risk of an oil spill serious? Was the country prepared. Evidence indicates that Mauritius was well equipped. But that was not enough. Continue reading

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Sea Control 344 - “There is no global understanding of what maritime security is; it certainly looks different from the perspective of the US or small islands” @c_bueger and @stockbruegger discuss the Western Indian Ocean’s militarization dilemma. https://sea-control.simplecast.com/episodes/sea-control-344-the-western-indian-oceans-militarization-dilemma

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The inaugural maritime research working group icebreaker... 'may the room above us never fall in, and the friends below never fall out'.🇦🇺🇸🇬🇮🇳🇱🇷🇨🇿🇬🇧🇲🇨 @SeaPowerCentre @nmfindia @pusmastldm @c21st_sailor @SeskoalDharmaw1

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Very much looking forward to attend this event by @SeaPowerCentre bringing all major voices on #maritmesecurity in the #indopacific together. In my address I will revisit the key trends in thinking #security at sea and #bluecrime. @safeseas1 https://twitter.com/SeaPowerCentre/status/1521278365810008064

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SPEAKER SPOTLIGHT📢: Dr Christian Bueger, Professor of International Relations from the University of Copenhagen, will deliver the keynote address on a commonality of purpose in maritime security at this year's Sea Power Conference. @c_bueger. #IndoPacific2022

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