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This dissertation explores the growing field of study around Maritime Security. While an increasingly common sub-heading in American naval strategy documents, maritime security operations are largely framed around individual threats (i.e. counter-piracy, counter-terrorism, count…

This assessment of European Union foreign policy towards the South Caucasus shows that while the EU has developed a coherent transport policy since 1992, paradoxically, it has had no corresponding coherent conflict resolution policy for this region. The fact that the EU deepened…

In this dissertation, I examine Lloyd's of London, the world's largest insurance market, as a transnational actor that influences the maritime security policies of certain littoral states. The research question is: Did Lloyd's of London's classification of the Malacca Straits as…

Current anti and counter-piracy strategies and operations by both the United States and the international community at large in the Gulf of Aden are fundamentally flawed. These strategies and resulting operations address the maritime symptoms of Somali piracy rather than the on …