Pirates, Drugs and Navies

Bueger, Christian; Stockbruegger, Jan

doi:10.1080/03071847.2016.1253375

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“…As such, the blue economy cannot continue to be defined and framed in the narrow margin of economics, but should encompass geopolitical dimensions -power, control, environment, and military strategy -in a network of relationships. As aforementioned, militarism is at the core of the relationship between blue economy and maritime surveillance and enforcement requirements OPINION (Bueger and Stockbruegger, 2016). A befitting framework will therefore have both the military and civilians addressing multiple threats.…”

Section: The Exploitation Of the Blue Economy Ecosystem And Relations...mentioning

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New Book: Ideas and Actionable Steps for Scaling Africa’s Blue Economy Strategy

Onditi¹,

Yates²,

Bohler‐Muller³

2021

The Thinker

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Illusions of Location Theory: Consequences for Blue Economy in Africa, a new book edited by Dr. Francis Onditi and Prof. Douglas Yates, with a foreword by Prof. Narnia Bohler-Muller, is finally published and can now be ordered from global leading platforms, including Amazon. The subject of the blue economy is fast emerging both as a concept and practice. Within the African Union development envisioning, the blue economy ecosystem is considered as a strategy towards revamping the Agenda 2063. Due to its expansion in the policy realm and the academy, the scope and debate have considerably widened. This evolution has triggered fundamental questions: What does it mean for environmental sustainability? What does it mean for inclusivity in the exploitation of the blue economy ecosystem? These are some of the questions the current blue economy framework and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) (established in 1982) seek to address (Bueger, 2017). However, there is more to the shareability and exploitation of the blue economy than these policy and legal frameworks, an extra dimension that can be housed in the geopolitical and diplomatic works that showcase the experiences of landlocked states and how states are/or aren’t resolving disputes emerging from the changing boundaries and resource locations triggered by natural forces and environmental change.

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Section: The Exploitation Of the Blue Economy Ecosystem And Relations...mentioning

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New Book: Ideas and Actionable Steps for Scaling Africa’s Blue Economy Strategy

Onditi¹,

Yates²,

Bohler‐Muller³

2021

The Thinker

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“…The push for maritime security is now spreading to other domains like illegal fishing 1 (Bueger and Stockbruegger 2016). This trend undermines the cooperation between state and fishing communities, in a context of a growing antagonism and conflict over fishing grounds compounded by a race to secure sea lanes and oil rigs.…”

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Governing Africa’s Seas in the Neoliberal Era

Dahou¹,

Chalfin²

2019

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics

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As blue growth (widely accepted as the sustainable development in the marine and maritime sectors as a whole) is gaining increasing traction, oceans and seas are seen as new frontiers for global capitalism. In African countries this trend has spurred a new wave of appropriation and control of maritime spaces for the blue economy. At a time of unprecedented expansion of global production and trade, the African continent is facing new challenges in maritime governance. The governance of the seas has profoundly changed in the 21st century with the explosion of maritime transport, the globalization of the exploitation of marine resources, and the growing concern for environmental issues. The idea of an integrated policy of seas and oceans management became a cornerstone of international and national instruments aiming to regulate maritime circulation and exploitation of marine resources. Integrated maritime management policies put emphasis on liberalization of the marine sectors and resources and the security agenda, taken in its broad sense to guarantee freedom of trade and environmental sustainability. These efforts, whose putative purpose is to combine economic, social, and environmental goals, has resulted in an unsteady balance between different sectors, scales, and actors and opened the door to controversies, dissent, and politics. Although the priorities of this global policy agenda continue to transform the maritime governance in Africa, the African states and societies are also actively reshaping it. While African states alter international maritime policies according to their own ends, these are also constantly molded through struggles over norms, resources, and spaces and conflicts arising from the dialectics of possession and dispossession. The text focuses on the four key areas of maritime governance: ports, offshore exploitation, security, and environment. Even though from the perspective of integrated maritime governance these fields are interwoven, they are subject to particular policies. Hence, while focusing on policies in each area separately, it also analyzes their relationships with each other in order to illuminate the complexity of power configurations.

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“…Similarly, a recent but narrowly focused empirical study, found “the presence of American, British, and French military bases deters piracy, [lowering] the number of attacks by 10%” (Desai & Shambaugh, 2021, p. 8). Given the increasing difficulty and operational cost of counter-piracy activity, member states of naval security pacts, such as the NATO mission Ocean Shield, have begun to question the feasibility of maintaining sustained naval presence in affected regions (Christian & Stockbruegger, 2016; Ruzza, 2020).…”

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Managing Threats on the High Seas: The Role of Naval Bases on Reducing Maritime Piracy

Danzell

Mauslein

Avelar

2021

Armed Forces & Society

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Weak coastal states often lack an adequate, sustained naval presence to monitor and police their territorial waters. Unpatrolled waters, both territorial and otherwise, may provide pirates with substantial financial opportunities that go far beyond any single country. Maritime piracy costs the global economy on average USD 24 billion per year. This research explores the impact of naval bases on acts of piracy to determine if naval presence can decrease the likelihood of piracy. To examine this important economic and national security issue, our research employs a zero-inflated negative binomial regression model. We also rely upon a newly constructed time-series dataset for the years 1992–2018. Our study shows that the presence of naval bases is essential in helping maritime forces combat piracy. Policymakers searching for options to combat piracy should find the results of this study especially useful in creating prescriptive approaches that aid in solving offshore problems.

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Pirates, Drugs and Navies

Cited by 8 publications

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New Book: Ideas and Actionable Steps for Scaling Africa’s Blue Economy Strategy

New Book: Ideas and Actionable Steps for Scaling Africa’s Blue Economy Strategy

Governing Africa’s Seas in the Neoliberal Era

Managing Threats on the High Seas: The Role of Naval Bases on Reducing Maritime Piracy

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