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Author Ali, Kamal-Deen

Title Publications on ocean development : maritime security cooperation in the gulf of guinea, volume 79
Published Leiden : Brill, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Publications on Ocean Development
Publications on ocean development.
Contents Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Acronyms; List of Tables and Figures; Chapter 1 A Complex Case of Maritime Insecurity; 1.1 A Strategic Maritime Profile; 1.2 A Rising-Complex Piracy; 1.3 Crucible of Insecurity; 1.4 Paradox of Opportunity and Challenges; 1.5 Interrogating Prevailing Responses; 1.6 In Search of Comprehensive Approach; 1.7 Scope of the Book and Chapter Outline; Part 1 Profile and Strategic Context; Chapter 2 Definition and Socio-Economic Profile of the Gulf of Guinea; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Defining the Gulf of Guinea Region
2.3 Summary of the Socio-Economic and Maritime Profile of the Gulf of Guinea2.4 Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Sea as the Geostrategic Essence of the Gulf of Guinea: A Historical and Contemporary Overview; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 A Geopoltical History from the Ocean; 3.3 A Geostrategic Future in the Sea; 3.4 Conclusion; Part 2 Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea; Chapter 4 Conceptualization of Maritime Security and Its Application in the Gulf of Guinea; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Relationship between the Concept of Security and Maritime Security; 4.3 Concept of Maritime Security
4.4 An Analytical Framework for Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea4.5 Conclusion; Chapter 5 Overview of Maritime Security Challenges in the Gulf of Guinea; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea; 5.3 Illicit Drug Trafficking in the Gulf of Guinea; 5.4 Illegal Migration by Sea; 5.5 Illicit Trafficking in Weapons; 5.6 Declining Fisheries as a Maritime Security Threat; 5.7 Offshore Energy Security Concerns and Challenges; 5.8 Conclusion; Chapter 6 A Case Study of Piracy and Armed Robbery in the Gulf of Guinea; 6.1 Introduction
6.2 Legal, Conceptual and Institutional Aspects of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships6.3 Overview and Distribution of Gulf of Guinea Piracy and Armed Robbery Incidents; 6.4 The Paradigm of Gulf of Guinea Piracy; 6.5 Evolution of the Niger Delta Insurgency into a Regional Maritime Security Threat; 6.6 Emergent Profile and Future Projection; 6.7 Implications of Gulf of Guinea Piracy for Regional and International Security; 6.8 Situating Gulf of Guinea Piracy within Contemporary Piracy Theories and Providing for the Governance Dimension; 6.9 Conclusion
Part 3 Assessment of Responses and Cooperative InitiativesChapter 7 Assessment of Implementation of International Legal Framework and Emerging Legal Complexities; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Implementation of the Law of the Sea Convention in the Gulf of Guinea; 7.3 Implementation of the Framework for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against Safety of Navigation and Fixed Platforms; 7.4 Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Drug Trafficking in the Gulf of Guinea; 7.5 Implementation of the International Framework against Transnational Organised Crimes
Summary In Maritime Security Cooperation in the Guinea: Prospects and Challenges, Kamal-Deen Ali provides ground-breaking analyses of the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea
Subject Piracy -- Prevention -- Law and legislation -- Africa, West
Security, International -- Africa, West
Security, International -- Guinea, Gulf of
International law
Piracy -- Prevention -- Law and legislation
Security, International
SUBJECT Guinea, Gulf of -- International status
Subject West Africa
Atlantic Ocean -- Gulf of Guinea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004301046
9789004301047