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MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 18 DECEMBER 2021 - 01 JANUARY 2022

With a 52% fall in the number of piracy and armed robbery incidents in the Gulf of Guinea in 2020, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Assembly urged governments to continue to cooperate with and assist States in the Gulf of Guinea…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 03 - 17 DECEMBER 2021

At the 8th Indian Ocean Dialogue on Post Pandemic Indian Ocean, India advocated its vision of SAGAR as a bedrock to establish trust, transparency, respect for international maritime rules, equal access as a right under the international law,…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 18 NOVEMBER - 02 DECEMBER 2021

Japan, India’s QUAD partner, has been expanding its maritime engagement with Southeast Asia. It has augmented the capacity of the Philippine Coast Guard by supplying it with its second multi-role response vessel (MRRV). Parallelly, it has…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 03 - 17 NOVEMBER 2021

The Indian Navy, which has played a large role in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) operations in the Asia-Pacific since the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, is finalising a standard operating procedure (SOP) for dealing with natural…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 19 OCTOBER - 02 NOVEMBER 2021

Shortly after participating in Foreign Minister-level discussion with the UAE, the US and Israel on maritime security, among many other issues, India joined the 34-member Combined Maritime Force (CMF) based in Bahrain. These two initiatives…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 04 - 18 OCTOBER 2021

The conduct of Phase II of the MALABAR 2021 maritime exercise, in the Bay of Bengal, intends to enhance integrated maritime operations between the QUAD countries within the Indian Ocean Region. Manoeuvres by the French Navy’s signals intelligence…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 19 SEPTEMBER - 03 OCTOBER 2021

The exchange of white shipping information between the Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) near New Delhi and the Maritime Security Center (MSC) in Muscat, shows consistency of effort by India to “enhance maritime safety…

MAKING WAVES E-NEWS BRIEF: 04 - 18 SEPTEMBER 2021

The removal of Kenyan maritime waters within the Indian Ocean from the piracy red list, 12 years after it was designated a high-risk area (HRA), represents the growing success of global efforts to combat piracy around the Horn of Africa. The…

INTERNATIONAL STRAITS OF RELEVANCE TO INDIA

Abstract International straits, by way of geography—resulting in their reference as ‘choke points’—and function, are a crucial component of the maritime domain. This is particularly true of the Indian Ocean Region within which India…

The Japan Times

JAPAN’S ECONOMIC SECURITY BILL: “NEW FORM OF CAPITALISM REALIZATION”

The introduction of the new economic security bill by Japan is being touted as a geopolitical tool to safeguard Tokyo’s cutting-edge technology from being exploited by the likes of Russia, China and North Korea. At the same time, it is also…

UNI

MARITIME DIMENSIONS OF SMUGGLING IN INDIA: AN ASSESSMENT

Introduction In a series of articles published since 2020, assessments on non-traditional maritime security threats to India, such as armed robbery, climate change, drug trafficking have been made. This article explores the maritime dimensions…

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN INDIA: THE SECURITY DIMENSION

Biodiversity Conservation and Maritime Security Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is defined as the “variability among living organisms from all sources including, inter alia, terrestrial, marine and other aquatic ecosystems and the…