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Maritime
Affairs
Advancing informed scholarship, strategic debate and policy-relevant thinking across the maritime domain.
NATIONAL MARITIME FOUNDATION
MARITIME
AFFAIRS
THE JOURNAL
A forum for consequential maritime thought
“ Maritime Affairs brings together rigorous research, strategic analysis and informed commentary on the ideas, developments and challenges shaping the maritime domain ”.
EDITORIAL PURPOSE
The journal encourages critical engagement with maritime security, naval strategy, geopolitical developments, ocean governance, technology, commerce and non-traditional security challenges.
It provides a platform for scholars, practitioners, policymakers and subject specialists to contribute original and policy-relevant work.
Strategic Inquiry
Examining changes in maritime power, security and the wider strategic environment.
Policy Relevance
Connecting maritime research with contemporary policy and operational concerns.
Maritime Dialogue
Encouraging informed debate across institutions, disciplines and regions.
ON THE EDITORIAL DESK
The current issue
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SPECIAL ISSUE · 2026
Maritime Affairs
This special issue examines India–Taiwan maritime cooperation, regional resilience, ocean governance and the evolving strategic environment of the Indo-Pacific.
FEATURED IN THIS ISSUE
Selected research from Volume 22RESEARCH ARTICLE
Incorporating a “Maritime Corridor” in Taiwan’s “New Southbound Policy+”: Rationale and Prospect
HH Michael Hsiao, Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan and Dr Alan H YangRESEARCH ARTICLE
Imperatives of Maintaining Open, Safe and Secure Seas Amidst Contemporary Cross-Strait Dynamics
Captain Kamlesh K Agnihotri, IN (Retd)RESEARCH ARTICLE
Blue Economy as Foreign Policy Instrument: Strategic Convergences and India–Taiwan Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Chime YoudonEDITORIAL LEADERSHIP
The people behind the journal
EDITOR
Vice Admiral Pradeep Chauhan
AVSM & Bar, VSM, IN (Retd)
Providing strategic and editorial direction to Maritime Affairs and its contribution to maritime scholarship.
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EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Captain Bharat Deep Gaur
IN (Retd)
Coordinating the editorial process and the development of each issue of Maritime Affairs.
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Commodore Jai Bedi, IN
Captain Kamlesh K Agnihotri, IN (Retd)
Captain KS Vikramaditya, IN
Captain Ranendra S Sawan, IN
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ABOUT MARITIME AFFAIRS
Ideas across the maritime spectrum
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Purpose
To advance serious, original and informed engagement with maritime issues of strategic and policy significance.
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Contributors
The journal welcomes submissions from scholars, practitioners, policymakers and subject specialists.
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Originality
Manuscripts should be original contributions and should not be under simultaneous consideration elsewhere.
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