1st Edition
Blue Security in the Indo-Pacific
This book advances an holistic conceptualisation of maritime security, under the term ‘Blue Security’, and situates it in states across the Indo-Pacific.
The Indo-Pacific encompasses a vast space, incorporating two of the planet’s biggest oceans, the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as well as littoral and hinterland states home to half the world’s population. Security challenges abound across the maritime Indo-Pacific, ranging from the risk of inter-state war at sea to so-called blue crimes, like piracy, smuggling, and illegal fishing. Climate change and marine pollution, as well as the over-exploitation of scarce and sometimes fragile resources, also pose threats to human security, sustainability, and biodiversity. Using the concept of ‘Blue Security’, this book assesses these various challenges and analyses the approaches to their management used by Indo-Pacific states. It argues that we should embrace an holistic understanding of maritime security, incorporating national, regional, international, human, and environmental dimensions. To that end, it explores the Blue Security strategies of eighteen Indo-Pacific states, examining their changing perceptions of threat, their approaches to managing those challenges, and their capabilities. The volume makes an innovative contribution to our knowledge of a region crucial to global security and prosperity.
This book will be of interest to students of maritime strategy, security studies, Asian politics and International Relations.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
1 Introduction: Blue Security in the Indo-Pacific, Ian Hall, Troy Lee-Brown and Rebecca Strating 2 Australia, Justin Burke 3 Bangladesh, Lailufar Yasmin 4 China, Edward Sing Yue Chan 5 Fiji, Michael O’Keefe and Ilai ‘Jack’ Moceica 6 France, Melodie Ruwet 7 India, Pooja Bhatt 8 Indonesia, Dita Liliansa 9 Japan, Kyoko Hatakeyama 10 Malaysia, Ruhanas Harun 11 New Zealand, David Capie 12 The Philippines, Charmaine Misalucha-Willoughby 13 Papua New Guinea, Bernard Yegiora 14 Singapore, Chulanee Attanayake 15 South Korea, Sanghoon Kim 16 Sri Lanka, Nilanthi Samaranayake 17 Thailand, Kitti Prasirtsuk 18 United States, Gregory B. Poling and Harrison Prétat 19 Vietnam, Nguyen Thi Lan Anh Appendix: Data tables: Maritime Strength and Security
Biography
Ian Hall is a Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Troy Lee-Brown is a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia’s Defence and Security Institute.
Rebecca Strating is the Director of La Trobe Asia and a Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
