By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. Over the past few years, however, due to a gradual emergence of various issues related to or occurring in the maritime domain, the international security studies field has experienced a birth of a new sub-division, focused on the maritime domain, its global importance, and a variety of off-shore based threats that generate an increasing impact factor on the on-shore environment.
Researchers from different backgrounds have engaged into adjoined projects with an aim to merge methodologies available in the traditional security studies, contemporary critical security studies, law of the sea studies, maritime law studies and other related fields. This ambitious endeavour has just begun, and aims to form an international, multi-disciplinary forum political sciences, law, economy, sociology and others where researchers and practitioners will be given an opportunity to accumulate knowledge and experience, and gather with an aim to define the outreach of this new emerging sub-field — the international maritime security studies.
Arab Spring was exploited badly in the Middle East, leading to the emergence of terrorist groups in many Arab countries. This facilitates terrorism threats through all seas, Gulfs and Straits. This may foreshadow the possibility of close terrorist cooperation, and an imminent danger from the sea, threatening the whole region including the nations of southern Europe.
In North Africa, some of Libyan coast cities are occupied by terrorist groups. Phae3: Terrorists will direct attacks on the coasts across the Mediterranean Sea in order to threaten the Strait of Gibraltar. Political and security situations must be settled in Libya, and terrorist groups in North Africa must be eliminated with a special priority to Libya.
For effective international response, the EU as a regional organization should coordinate with the Arab League as counterpart regional organizations; and NATO as a regional allied force should coordinate with the Arab Defence Force as counterpart allied forces.
