Capacity Building for Maritime Security

Christian Bueger is Professor of International Relations in the Political Science Department at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.  Timothy Edmunds is Professor of International Security and Director of the Global Insecurities Center at the University of Bristol, UK. Robert McCabe is Assistant Professor at the Center for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University, UK.

• 1.Maritime security, capacity building and the Western Indian Ocean.- 2.Theorizing capacity building.- 3.Israel: Traditional approaches to securitizing the maritime domain.- 4.Building Maritime Security in Pakistan – the navy vanguard.- 5.South Africa: Maritime security sector reform.- 6.Western Indian Ocean: Multilateral capacity building initiatives.- 7.Kenya: From ‘sea-blind’ to ‘sea-vision’.- 8.Seychelles: Island solutions and capacity building successes.- 9.Djibouti: Ports, politics and piracy.- 10.Somalia: Experiments in knowing and doing capacity building.- 11.Conclusion: Governing the maritime - providing international assistance.