Description of 5 Vols of 2024 Edition of Maritime Perspectives

• Vol I – Viewing Maritime Activities through a Legal Lens 

This volume of Maritime Perspectives on Public International Maritime Law entitled “Viewing Maritime Activities Through a Legal Lens” presents the reader with a series of well-written and well-researched articles that delve into legal aspects of a wide range of maritime activities. Importantly, each article also includes useful policy-recommendations to better secure India’s maritime interests.

• Vol II – Negotiating the Western Segment of the Indo-Pacific: Maritime Power-Play

This volume will prove useful to such policymakers, researchers, and practitioners, as are committed to the enhancement of maritime security. These articles underscore the importance of collaboration and cooperation in pursuing the shared goal of stabilising the Indo-Pacific maritime domain through the establishment of mitigating strategies and the judicious utilisation of all strategic tools, from dialogue to kinetic action.

• Vol III – Eastern Segment of the Indo-Pacific: Maritime Power-Play

Thus, three distinct threads emerge from the articles covered in this volume of the Maritime Perspectives 2024: (1) the increasingly disturbing maritime expansionist agenda being pursued by China within western and southern Pacific; (2) the response strategies of the affected parties and concerned stakeholders; and (3) the relevance of ASEAN for countries such as the United States and India in their common endeavour to balance the Chinese propensity for unilaterally changing the status-quo in the region.

• Vol IV – India’s Blue Economy Transition

This volume will serve as a ready guide for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and researchers alike, in their common endeavour to harness the vast potential of India’s maritime resources while simultaneously ensuring that environmental integrity is maintained.

• Vol V – Maritime India: Temporal and Spatial Continuum

This volume of Maritime Perspectives attempts to track the maritime identity and history of India, while deliberating upon the evolution of its maritime diplomacy and its usage of soft power to counter contemporary threats within the international maritime domain.