The question, therefore, is no longer whether the turn to automation in shipping takes place, but rather at what pace and in what form it will occur. The view that autonomous ships are not “technologies of passing interest”3 receives strong support from the fact that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has invested significant resources in better understanding the legal impli…
This handbook offers a critical and substantial analysis of maritime security and documents the most pressing strategic, economic, socio-cultural and legal questions surrounding it. Written by leading international experts, this comprehensive volume presents a wide variety of theoretical positions on maritime security, detailing its achievements and outlining outstanding issues faced by those i…
Law enforcement at sea has become an increasingly important tool for combating transnational crime. Such law enforcement operations are commonly directed by multinational missions composed of military rather than police forces, and are often carried out in maritime areas not subject to national jurisdiction. Because of these characteristics, maritime law enforcement operations touch upon many u…