2020 - National Maritime Foundation

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 21 DECEMBER 2020 – 27 DECEMBER 2020

China's demand for additional guarantees before sanctioning a US$6 billion loan to Pakistan for an infrastructure project suggests that all may not be well between the "all-weather" allies. In other news, India and Vietnam adopted a “Joint…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 14 DECEMBER 2020 - 20 DECEMBER 2020

The graduation of France from dialogue partner to full member of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), while Russia and Saudi Arabia struggle to attain dialogue partner status, is indicative of the IOR geopolitics. Iran's withdrawal of its…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 07 DECEMBER 2020 - 13 DECEMBER 2020

The adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution exhorting states to designate seafarers and other marine personnel as 'key workers', and to implement relevant measures to allow stranded seafarers to be repatriated and others to join ships shows…

The NMF signs MoU with the World Sustainable Development Forum

The National Maritime Foundation signs MOU with the World Sustainable Development Forum (WSDF)

The National Maritime Foundation and the World Sustainable Development Forum signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise their partnership. Both organisations have a joint vision to ultimately move beyond dialogue and take…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 30 NOVEMBER 2020-6 DECEMBER 2020

The unanimous renewal of the Security Council's resolution authorising States and regional organizations cooperating with Somalia to use all necessary means to fight piracy off the coast of the East African country is a recognition of the ongoing…

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VULNERABILITY OF COASTAL CITIES: AN INTEGRATED ADAPTATION APPROACH- PART 2

Part I of this article had addressed the vulnerability of coastal cities to climate-change-induced impacts such as extreme-weather events, and sea-level rise. This second part explores how the most-vulnerable groups within coastal communities…

COASTAL SECURITY IN INDIA: TWELVE YEARS AFTER ‘26/11’

INTRODUCTION It has been twelve years since the heinous attack on Mumbai on 26 November 2008. While ‘coastal border management’ was institutionalised in 2004 with the establishment of the Department of Border Management (DoBM) in the…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 23 NOVEMBER 2020- 29 NOVEMBER 2020

The damage caused to a Greek-operated tanker by a sea-mine at a Saudi Arabian terminal on the Red Sea brings back haunting memories of the Iran-Iraq 'tanker war', which saw the unrestricted use of mines as a highly cost effective weapon to…

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IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON COASTAL CITIES: AN ‘INTEGRATED ADAPTATION’ APPROACH PART I

Abstract A country’s coastline is the epicentre of its business, commerce, transportation, and industry. It provides a majority of the global ecosystem goods and services that are central to the country’s socio-cultural and economic…

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NAVIES AND THE ‘USE OF FORCE’- ANALYSING AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE US NAVY AND SEAGOING FORCES OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS PART 2: ADDRESSING THE LEGAL ISSUES

The preceding segment of this two-part article had set the context within which three important legal questions needed to be explored: (1) Do IRGCN gunboats classify as warships? (2) Do their harassment-actions constitute a level of ‘use…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF 16 NOVEMBER 2020- 22 NOVEMBER 2020

The US' Secretary of the Navy's announcement about the re-establishment of the First Fleet in Southeast Asia assumes significance in the wake of China’s assertive actions across the Indo-Pacific, especially the South China Sea. …

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NAVIES AND THE ‘USE OF FORCE’- ANALYSING AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE US NAVY AND SEAGOING FORCES OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS- PART 1

The following paragraphs constitute the first of a two-part article that seeks to analyse the sea-going forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), considered by some to a legitimate, albeit parallel, ‘navy’ of the Islamic Republic…