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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

Uniting nations: developing maritime domain awareness for the ‘Blue Pacific’

  • 8th May 2018
  • by Christian Bueger
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This commentary by Christian Bueger and Anthony Bergin was originally published on ASPI’s The Strategist Pacific island states face a pressing need to understand more about what’s happening in the waters that surround them and to work more closely to … Continue reading

Maritime spill over! Shipping at risk. The global consequences of the conflict in Yemen.

  • 20th February 2018
  • by Christian Bueger
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What started as a small scale rebellion has now become a full-fledged civil war fuelled by external engagements: Yemen’s political futures is more and more uncertain. The country is on the way to a protracted conflict as we have come … Continue reading

Approaches to maritime governance: Coordination instruments in Seychelles and Kenya

  • 6th August 2017
  • by Christian Bueger
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One of the core challenges of governing the maritime in order to achieve the goals associated with maritime security and the blue economy is the coordination of the different governmental agencies implementing policies at sea and those societal actors that … Continue reading

Does capacity building stand for a new era of international engagement?

  • 26th June 2017
  • by Christian Bueger
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Capacity building is the core term through which many global actors describe their international engagement today. While the concept of “capacity building” is anything but new, its arrival in international security discourse is relatively recent. Are we witnessing a major … Continue reading

What knowledge does capacity building need? The fallacies of epistemic determinism

  • 16th June 2017
  • by Christian Bueger
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Inherent in contemporary understandings of capacity building is the idea that if a country possesses the right knowledge and technology then it will be able to handle the challenges associated with the Sustainable Development Goals. In consequence, much emphasis of … Continue reading

The contact group at 20: Challenges for the upcoming plenary

  • 15th June 2017
  • by Christian Bueger
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In July 2017 the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), the main global governance body steering the international campaign to address Somali piracy, will hold its 20th plenary meeting in Mauritius. What issues will the CGPCS … Continue reading

Thinking Blue Economy and Maritime Security together

  • 1st April 2017
  • by Christian Bueger
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The Blue Economy and Maritime security are two of the major frameworks for the contemporary discussion of ocean governance. Although some efforts have been made to define what the blue economy consists of, it is yet another fuzzy term with … Continue reading

The Concept of “Capacity Building”

  • 15th February 2017
  • by Christian Bueger
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Concepts are not only descriptive of our activities, they are also prescriptive. They direct actions and provide a certain understanding of how things should be done. They stand for distinct (political) projects. The projects analyzed in SAFE SEAS aim at … Continue reading

Defining Maritime Security

  • 27th January 2017
  • by Christian Bueger
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Maritime Security is a buzzword and no consensual definition has emerged on the concept. The absence of a universal definition is not necessarily a problem given the political character of the term, and the need for having country and region … Continue reading

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18 Aug

New Commentary: @c_bueger investigates the new contact group in the #WesternIndianOcean that replaced the #CGPCS on #piracy. He argues that the new format, @cgima_wio will become a sleeping beauty, since no one takes leadership.
https://www.safeseas.net/4-scenarios-for-new-contact-group/

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17 Aug

We are recruiting: 2 year post doc in our new #ocean infrastructure research group, led by @DrKimPeters and I, based @PolsciCph.
Apply here: https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=156662

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15 Aug

The UK has published a new National Strategy for Maritime Security (NSMS). The NSMS comes at a critical time for the UK maritime sector. Maritime security is key to delivering the UK’s ambitions

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-maritime-security-strategy-to-target-latest-physical-and-cyber-threats

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