TY - JOUR

T1 - Into the sea

T2 - Capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge

AU - Bueger, Christian

AU - Edmunds, Timothy

AU - McCabe, Robert

PY - 2020

Y1 - 2020

N2 - Maritime security capacity-building is a growing field of international activity. It is an area that requires further study, as a field in its own right, but also as an archetype to develop insights for capacity-building and security sector reform in other arenas. This article is one of the first to analyse this field of activity. Our empirical focus is on the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. Here, international actors have launched multiple capacity-building projects, initially in response to Somali piracy. We document the significance, extent and variety of capacity-building activities in this region and examine the ways in which capacity-building at sea has incorporated innovative characteristics that develop and expand the capacity-building agenda as traditionally understood. Our conclusion highlights the need to pay more attention to the maritime domain in international security and development studies and considers ways in which the maritime capacity-building experience may offer important lessons for other fields of international policy.

AB - Maritime security capacity-building is a growing field of international activity. It is an area that requires further study, as a field in its own right, but also as an archetype to develop insights for capacity-building and security sector reform in other arenas. This article is one of the first to analyse this field of activity. Our empirical focus is on the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. Here, international actors have launched multiple capacity-building projects, initially in response to Somali piracy. We document the significance, extent and variety of capacity-building activities in this region and examine the ways in which capacity-building at sea has incorporated innovative characteristics that develop and expand the capacity-building agenda as traditionally understood. Our conclusion highlights the need to pay more attention to the maritime domain in international security and development studies and considers ways in which the maritime capacity-building experience may offer important lessons for other fields of international policy.

KW - capacity-building

KW - international interventions

KW - Maritime security

KW - security sector reform

KW - Western Indian Ocean

U2 - 10.1080/01436597.2019.1660632

DO - 10.1080/01436597.2019.1660632

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85073831524

VL - 41

SP - 228

EP - 246

JO - Third World Quarterly

JF - Third World Quarterly

SN - 0143-6597

IS - 2

ER -