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International Maritime Security Law by James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo defines an emerging interdisciplinary field of law and policy comprised of norms, legal regimes, and rules to address today's hybrid threats to the global order of the oceans. Worldwide shipping commerce, fishing fleets, pleasure craft, and coastal states are exposed to the menace of offshore terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, piracy, smuggling, robbery, marine insurgency and anti-access threats. Land-based institutions and maritime constabulary forces operate within an increasingly integrated network that blends elements of humanitarian law, human rights law, criminal law, and law of the sea, with inspection regimes, commercial enterprise, and marine safety and environmental stewardship. The new authorities fuse together a global maritime partnership among states, international organizations and commercial interests to protect the maritime commons from the most dangerous risks and hazards

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This article rejects the widely accepted orthodoxy of the international law of economic development: democracy creates instability that tends to hold back development. Instead, it suggests that promotion of democracy is the best way to achieve rapid economic development even for the poorest nations. The single greatest cause of underdevelopment in Third World countries is the failure to promote democracy. Years of forfeited progress in economic growth, environmental protection, & human rights have impoverished & shortened the lives of millions of people. The author briefly outlines the origins of the prevailing orthodoxy of economic development, analyzes the application of this orthodoxy, & presents perspectives on economic development grounded in human freedom & democracy. In conclusion he states that practitioners of international law should adopt the emerging norm of democratic economic development. E. Sanchez