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Maritime Security, second edition, provides a practical "how-to-guide" for maritime security professionals and students. This book explains, in clear language, how commercial seaports and vessels function; what threats currently exist; what security policies, procedures, systems, and measures must be implemented to mitigate these threats; and how to conduct ship and port security assessments and plans. Whether the problem is weapons of mass destruction or cargo theft, Maritime Security provides invaluable guidance for the professionals who protect our shipping and ports.

Front Cover -- Maritime Security -- Maritime Security -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Michael A. McNicholas -- Contributors to This Edition -- Contributors to the Previous Edition (on Whose Chapters This Book Is Based) -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Commercial Seaports and Strategic Maritime Passages in Transformation -- Introduction -- Commercial Seaports -- Container Terminals -- Bulk Cargo Terminals -- Cruise Ship Terminals -- Nontraditional Ports -- Stakeholders at Seaports -- Terminal Owners -- Terminal Operators -- Stevedore Company

In Understanding Maritime Security, Christian Bueger and Timothy Edmunds offer a concise introduction to the history and evolution of security at sea. Whether it is pirates, smugglers, or international disputes in the South China Sea, the authors show how to make sense of them by employing the core analytical frameworks that professionals use to understand maritime order. They also discuss future trends, emerging technologies, climate change, and the tectonic geopolitical shifts that are restructuring world order. It offers maritime security analysts, professionals, and students a comprehensive overview of maritime security and helps them connect the dots about its future.

'India's Maritime Security' by Rahul Roy-Chaudhury is reviewed.

Ninic, D.: Maritime piracy in Africa : the humanitarian dimension. - S. 2-16 Vrey͏, F.: Bad order at sea : from the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Guinea. - S. 17-30 Onuoha, F. C.: Sea piracy and maritime security in the Horn of Africa : the Somali coast and Gulf of Aden in perspective. - S. 31-44 Musili, P.: Enhancing regional maritime cooperation in Africa : the planned end state. - S. 45-59 Gibson, J.: Maritime security and international law in Africa. - S. 60-70

By the end of the Cold War the United States had produced a navy, to a large degree in response to the global challenge posed by the Soviet Union, that was and remains the largest and most powerful navy in the world. This maritime supremacy confers great advantages on the United States in its foreign policy, but it has limitations. The U.S. Navy, while the dominant maritime force, must act in concert with other maritime forces in the quest for an orderly maritime domain. More and more, todays dynamic maritime security landscape also involves such broad-ranging missions as countering global terrorism, providing humanitarian relief for natural disasters, interdicting drug trafficking, and regulating the migration of people. No single navy or nation can do this alone. Security threats in the maritime domain are an important challenge. In todays world 50,000 large ships carry about 80 percent of the worlds trade. To offer security in the maritime domain, governments around the world need the capabilities to confront directly such common threats as piracy, smuggling, drug trading, illegal immigration, banditry, human smuggling and slavery, environmental attack, trade disruption, weapons proliferation, and terrorism. Recognizing this new international security landscape, the former Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) called for a collaborative international approach to maritime security. Initially branded the 1,000-ship Navy, this concept envisioned that U.S. naval forces would partner with a diverse array of multinational, federal, state, local and private sector entities to ensure freedom of navigation, the flow of commerce, and the protection of ocean resources