The research network for Maritime Security and Ocean Governance
Publications outside the Safeseas website.
Offshore wind is rapidly emerging as the future of green energy production, but it brings new challenges to maritime security. With the expansion of wind farms, underwater cables, hydrogen pipelines, and energy islands, regional seas are becoming more congested and vulnerable to terrorism, crime, and hostile state activities. In a new article forthcoming in the … Read more
Global ocean politics has continuously been evolving, and maritime security is part of that development. A new article, co-authored by Christian Bueger, shows how maritime security is related to debates on the blue economy, ocean health, and blue justice – three other key ‘blue paradigms’. Thinking through how maritime security connects and contributes to the … Read more
Critical maritime infrastructure protection (CMIP) is since the Nord Stream attacks in the Baltic Sea of 2022 a top political priority. CMIP has become a key new focus theme for SafeSeas and in a new article we discuss the key components of this agenda. What are maritime infrastructures, what threats and risks are they facing, … Read more
SafeSeas’ Tim Edmunds and Scott Edwards collaborated with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF) on ‘Maritime security sector governance and reform’ (MSSG/R). The policy brief, available here, is a backgrounder document intended to provide a consideration of the challenges and opportunities of security sector reform and governance in the maritime sector. The maritime … Read more
In early 2022 a subtle, but substantial shift took place in the Western Indian Ocean’s security architecture: The Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (known as CGPCS) closed shop. It was replaced by a new format. Yet, not much action followed. In a new commentary, Christian Bueger investigates the prospects of the … Read more
In June 2022, SafeSeas co-organized a workshop on subsea data cables as part of our work on this theme. The report summarizing the key findings is now out here. Our key argument is that the new awareness and the growing expansion of the network implies a new era for cable security. We discuss seven key … Read more
Ghana has made tremendous strides towards the adoption of a National Integrated Maritime Strategy (NIMS). This strategy will place the country alongside Togo and Côte d’Ivoire in the sub-region to have a robust maritime strategy that will outline a decisive vision with clear objectives, guiding principles and time-measured targets and deliverables to be achieved. The … Read more
Professor Christian Bueger and Dr. Jan Stockbruegger have conducted a review of the current security situation in the Western Indian Ocean. The study is published in African Security Review. They show which insecurities are on the rise and argue that the rise of geopolitical concerns increasingly produces a militarization dilemma: foreign naval forces are needed … Read more
SafeSeas submitted evidence to the UK’s House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee inquiry ‘UNCLOS: fit for purpose in the 21st century?’ The evidence can be downloaded here. The inquiry explored the extent to which the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which came into force in 1994, remains fit for … Read more
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 the public domain. Furthermore, in the past decade, there has been a growing awareness of … Read more