TY - JOUR
T1 - Maritime security
T2 - The uncharted politics of the global sea
AU - Bueger, Christian
AU - Edmunds, Timothy
AU - Ryan, Barry J.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - In this introduction to a special section of the September 2019 issue of International Affairs, we revisit the main themes and arguments of our article 'Beyond seablindness: A new agenda for maritime security studies', published in this journal in November 2017. We reiterate our call for more scholarly attention to be paid to the maritime environment in international relations and security studies. We argue that the contemporary maritime security agenda should be understood as an interlinked set of challenges of growing global, regional and national significance, and comprising issues of national, environmental, economic and human security. We suggest that maritime security is characterized by four main characteristics, including its interconnected nature, its transnationality, its liminality-in the sense of implicating both land and sea-A nd its national and institutional cross-jurisdictionality. Each of the five articles in the special section explores aspects of the contemporary maritime security agenda, including themes of geopolitics, international law, interconnectivity, maritime security governance and the changing spatial order at sea.
AB - In this introduction to a special section of the September 2019 issue of International Affairs, we revisit the main themes and arguments of our article 'Beyond seablindness: A new agenda for maritime security studies', published in this journal in November 2017. We reiterate our call for more scholarly attention to be paid to the maritime environment in international relations and security studies. We argue that the contemporary maritime security agenda should be understood as an interlinked set of challenges of growing global, regional and national significance, and comprising issues of national, environmental, economic and human security. We suggest that maritime security is characterized by four main characteristics, including its interconnected nature, its transnationality, its liminality-in the sense of implicating both land and sea-A nd its national and institutional cross-jurisdictionality. Each of the five articles in the special section explores aspects of the contemporary maritime security agenda, including themes of geopolitics, international law, interconnectivity, maritime security governance and the changing spatial order at sea.
KW - global environmental politics
KW - international law
KW - international security
KW - maritime security
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072765570&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/ia/iiz145
DO - 10.1093/ia/iiz145
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85072765570
SN - 0020-5850
VL - 95
SP - 971
EP - 978
JO - International Affairs
JF - International Affairs
IS - 5
ER -