International order at sea: What it is. How it is challenged. How it is maintained

Abstract

The editors present the framework of the book-how international order at sea is challenged, changed, and maintained and the interaction and cooperation among leading, emerging, and smaller naval powers maintaining good order at sea. The book examines major changes in how the sea is used as a resource, as a medium for transportation, or as an area of dominion and strategic maneuver to challenge the established international order at sea. Furthermore, it explores how structural changes like global power shifts, changing threat perceptions, naval modernization, and changes in naval capabilities and an evolving interpretation and enforcement of the UNCLOS as well as bottom-up non-traditional security threats like piracy, terrorism, trafficking in Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), unsustainable over-fishing, and environmental degradation will impact on the established order at sea.