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ENHANCING MARITIME DOMAIN AWARENESS IN THE INDO-PACIFIC AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRENEAN REGIONS: INDIAN AND ISRAELI PERSPECTIVE

This research paper is a product of the research collaboration between the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi and the Maritime Policy and Strategy Research Center, Haifa University (HMS), Israel, with the aim of providing policy recommendations…

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DECODING MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN INDIA – PART 2: CHALLENGES IN MARINE CONSERVATION IN THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE AND TRANSBOUNDARY AREAS

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) 1982, entitles every coastal or island State to a varying degree of access and jurisdiction over its coastal seas. A belt of 12 nautical miles (nm) breadth, measured to seaward from…

ASSESSING INDIA’s “SECURITY-OF-ENERGY” IN THE FACE OF HYBRID WARFARE

In recent years, hybrid warfare has developed into a major regional and national threat, and threatens to become a global challenge. Hybrid warfare refers to a combination of conventional and unconventional warfare capabilities, used by non-State…

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STEMMING THE RISING TIDE — OCEANS AND THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

The crisis of anthropogenic climate change has been framed in myriad ways, often oscillating between a wide array of definitions, political ideologies, economic pathways, and moral principles. Translating such a diverse and polarised debate…

THE FUKUSHIMA CONUNDRUM: OCEAN DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WASTE

The Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Yoshihide Suga, recently made public a plan to discharge 1.25 million tonnes of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, describing it as his country’s “most realistic…

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DECODING MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN INDIA – PART I: UNDERSTANDING THE LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS

In the current era of the Anthropocene, humans have become the major driver for planetary changes in the physical, chemical and biological properties of the air, land and the ocean. The exact year/ decade of the beginning of this epoch is…

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘AUSTRALIA ECONOMIC STRATEGY REPORT’

The “Australia Economic Strategy (AES) Report” has been put together by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in collaboration with (Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler) KPMG under the leadership of former Ambassador Anil Wadhwa, who retired…

IMPLICATIONS FOR INDIA OF NOCTILUCA SCINTILLANS IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN

In October 2020, bright blue sparkling waters were reported on the shores of the western Indian coasts, which were presented with excitement by residents of coastal cities and tourists in the face of the cold and demeaning fervour of the ongoing…

APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF WAR TO THE CYBER SECURITY DOMAIN

Anyone who has spent a significant period of time within the Information Security (InfoSec) industry would recognise the industry’s felt need to reinvent itself at regular intervals. This author has always found this to be a rather defeatist…

ROLE OF MARINE INSURANCE IN OIL POLLUTION IN INDIA

All too often, “the asserted divide between public and private international law suggests that the two occupy different, mutually exclusive domains. On the one hand, public international law comprises the legally binding rules and principles…

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PEERING DOWN THE HATCH: A QUICK PEEK AT INDIA'S SUBMARINE-WORLD

A Hindi translation of this article has been published in the April-May 2021 issue of “Defence Monitor” (Vol 9, Issue-4), a leading Hindi language defence magazine published in India. This English version is published with permission…

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ENHANCING INDIA-AUSTRALIA TIES THROUGH MARITIME TRADE

This article launches the NMF’s advocacy for closer India-Australia economic and strategic ties and argues that the synchronisation of bilateral maritime trade may hold the key to future growth in the relationship between these two critical…