China and the US have differing interpretations of the law of the sea – and this is fuelling deep distrust and suspicion.
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Efforts to combat illegal fishing and fisheries crime must recognise the relationship between the sector and maritime security.
The latest border protection move from the UK government could breach international law.
The Royal Navy is central to the government’s vision of ‘Global Britain’.
Nothing suggests that HMS Defender’s passage was anything but continuous and expeditious. But the UK should avoid relying on Ukrainian “permission” as a justification.
Russia is attempting to claim more of the Arctic seabed, an area rich in oil, gas and minerals. It’s also expanding shipping and reopening Arctic bases. Here are two things the U.S. can do about it.
Chinese fishermen are illegally trawling South American waters, inflaming tensions with the US. But for centuries Washington used aggressive fishing to expand its overseas presence, too.
The US used to remain neutral on China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. Why it changed tack.
Australia has a duty to provide urgent medical care to the crews under a maritime convention, but it must weigh the threat to Australians if it allows the ships to dock, too.
Despite its importance, Cameroon’s maritime fisheries sector is plagued with largely hidden, or ignored, fisheries crimes.
An international maritime lawyer explains whether Iran broke the law of the sea by detaining the Stena Impero.
The maritime pollution that drifts to dry land, causes an estimated 400,000 premature deaths and 14 million cases of childhood asthma each year.
The tale of the snow crab bears witness to the how the complexities of climate change and fights over fishing rights play out.
If African countries and their regional bodies want to reap substantially from the blue economy, then it’s time for the continent to invest heavily in securing its maritime resources.
By 2030, the Blue Economy will be worth $3 trillion. And the UK is well placed to capture a slice of this lucrative market, if it meets the challenges involved with innovation and ambition.
Indonesia and South Africa are making strides against transnational organised fisheries crime.
Managing maritime security is a challenging endeavour. Forms of maritime crime include piracy, drug and arms smuggling.
Why it is so difficult to find planes in water, even ones of vastly different sizes.
On Q&A, an unemployed merchant seafarer said Australian seafarers could replaced by foreign seafarers working on 457 visas, working for as little as $2 an hour. We check the facts.
In the summer of 2007, in a bizarre incident shown live on Russian television, scientists accompanied by a couple of senior politicians descended 4,300 meters to the floor of the Arctic Ocean in two Mir…
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Assistant Professor in Maritime Security, Coventry University
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Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW
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Lecturer in Law, Deakin University
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Professor of the Public International Law of the Sea and former Director of the Institute of Maritime Law, University of Southampton
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Adjunct Professor, Defence and Security Institute, The University of Western Australia; UNSW
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Assistant Professor, University of Warwick
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Professor of International Security, School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University
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Professorial Fellow, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Management and Economics of Resources and the Environment, University of Southern Denmark
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Professor of Law, University of Wollongong
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PhD candidate in Public International Law, University of Bristol
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Challis Chair of International Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, The University of Melbourne