Maritime Private Security
This book examines the evolution, function, problems and prospects of private security companies in the maritime sector.
The private security industry continues to evolve after its renaissance over the past few decades, first in Africa, and later in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite this, little academic work has been done to date on the role of private security in the maritime environment. This lacuna has become more pronounced as the threat of piracy, terrorism, and other acts of maritime political violence have caused littoral states and commercial entities alike to consider the use of private security to mitigate risks.
Maritime Private Security is an edited volume specifically dedicated to combating the absence of academic research in this area. The discussion of this multifaceted subject is organized into four key parts:
Part I: The historical and contemporary market in maritime private security services
Part II: The emergence of private anti-piracy escorts in the commercial sector
Part III: The privatization of Coast Guard services
Part IV: Private security responses to maritime terrorism
This book will be of much interest to students of naval policy and maritime security, private security companies, piracy and terrorism, international law and international relations in general.
Claude Berube teaches in the Political Science Department at the United States Naval Academy, and is co-author of two books and 20 articles.
Patrick Cullen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut Barcelona DEstudis Internacionals, and has a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
Series Editor: Geoffrey Till
ISSN 13669478
This series consists primarily of original manuscripts by research scholars in the general area of naval policy and history, without national or chronological limitations. It will from time to time also include collections of important articles as well as reprints of classic works.
1 Austro-Hungarian Naval Policy, 19041914
Milan N. Vego
2 Far-Flung Lines
Studies in Imperial Defence in
Honour of Donald Mackenzie
Schurman
Edited by Keith Neilson and
Greg Kennedy
3 Maritime Strategy and Continental Wars
Rear Admiral Raja Menon
4 The Royal Navy and German Naval Disarmament 19421947
Chris Madsen
5 Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas
Milan N. Vego
6 The Pen and Ink Sailor
Charles Middleton and the
Kings Navy, 17781813
John E. Talbott
7 The Italian Navy and Fascist Expansionism, 19351940
Robert Mallett
8 The Merchant Marine and International Affairs, 18501950
Edited by Greg Kennedy
9 Naval Strategy in Northeast Asia
Geo-strategic Goals, Policies
and Prospects
Duk-Ki Kim
10 Naval Policy and Strategy in the Mediterranean Sea
Past, Present and Future
Edited by John B. Hattendorf
11 Stalins Ocean-going Fleet
Soviet Naval Strategy and
Shipbuilding Programmes,
19351953
Jrgen Rohwer and
Mikhail S. Monakov
12 Imperial Defence, 18681887
Donald Mackenzie Schurman;
edited by John Beeler
13 Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Edited by Phillips Payson OBrien
14 The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons
Richard Moore
15 The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period
An Operational Perspective
Joseph Moretz
16 Chinese Grand Strategy and Maritime Power
Thomas M. Kane
17 Britains Anti-submarine Capability, 19191939
George Franklin
18 Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 19191939
Grand Strategy and Failure
Donald Stoker
19 Naval Mutinies of the Twentieth Century
An International Perspective
Edited by Christopher Bell and
Bruce Elleman
20 The Road to Oran
AngloFrench Naval Relations,
September 1939July 1940
David Brown
21 The Secret War against Sweden
US and British Submarine
Deception and Political Control
in the 1980s
Ola Tunander
22 Royal Navy Strategy in the Far East, 19191939
Planning for a War against Japan
Andrew Field
23 Seapower
A Guide for the Twenty-first
Century
Geoffrey Till
24 Britains Economic Blockade of Germany, 19141919
Eric W. Osborne
25 A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham
A Twentieth-Century Naval
Leader
Michael Simpson
26 Navies in Northern Waters, 17212000
Edited by Rolf Hobson and
Tom Kristiansen
27 German Naval Strategy, 18561888
Forerunners to Tirpitz
David Olivier
28 British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 19002000
Influences and Actions
Edited by Greg Kennedy
29 The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic, 19211940
Gunnar Aselius
30 The Royal Navy, 19301990
Innovation and Defence
Edited by Richard Harding
31 The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Ian Speller
32 Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
The Question of Fire Control
John Brooks
33 Greek Naval Strategy and Policy, 19101919
Zisis Fotakis
34 Naval Blockades and Seapower
Strategies and Counter-Strategies,
18052005
Edited by Bruce A. Elleman and
Sarah C.M. Paine
35 The Pacific Campaign in World War II
From Pearl Harbor to
Guadalcanal
William Bruce Johnson
36 Anti-Submarine Warfare in World War I
British Naval Aviation and the
Defeat of the U-Boats
John J. Abbatiello
37 The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 194449
Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones
38 The Development of British Naval Thinking
Essays in Memory of
Bryan Ranft
Edited by Geoffrey Till
39 Educating the Royal Navy
18th and 19th Century
Education for Officers
H.W. Dickinson
40 Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
The Turn to Mahan
James R. Holmes and
Toshi Yoshihara
41 Naval Coalition Warfare
From the Napoleonic War to
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Edited by Bruce A. Elleman and
S.C.M. Paine
42 Operational Warfare at Sea
Theory and Practice
Milan Vego
43 Naval Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Operations
Stability from the Sea
Edited by James J. Wirtz and
Jeffrey A. Larsen
44 Indian Naval Strategy in the 21st Century
James R. Holmes,
Andrew C. Winner and
Toshi Yoshihara
45 Seapower
A Guide for the Twenty-First
Century (Second Edition)
Geoffrey Till
46 Naval Power and Expeditionary Warfare
Peripheral Campaigns and New
Theatres of Naval Warfare
Edited by Bruce Elleman and
S.C.M. Paine
47 Sea Power and the Asia-Pacific