The concepts of maritime safety and maritime security were based, originally, on different aims, objectives, and perspectives. However, currently, most of the international maritime safety conventions have started to cover…
Maritime piracy dates back to the beginnings of maritime navigation, when the first commercial exchanges by sea began, having been considered practically extinct in the 19th century. It began to…
…The conceptual analysis that we present here has as main objective to approach the concept of National Security, making a correlation with the growth of maritime terrorism in the African…
The construction of EU security actorness has been accompanied by a narrative on security nexuses (internal-external, security-development, civilian-military, public-private) associated with the so-called ‘comprehensive approach’. The end of the Cold…
The article analyses the new Russian Security Strategy as a formulation of Russia’s “security dilemma”, both in terms of interpretation and response (Booth and Wheeler 2007). Very focused on the…
…whether Portugal’s interest is being properly safeguarded given the strategies and common policies enacted by the European Union within the framework of security and defence policies and affairs of the…
Global security assemblages’ concept, in a decade of its existence, has been a useful tool to explain a lot of atypical security collaboration between private and public entities. It has…
…an evolution from national security to collective security and to the current model of cooperative security, attentive to the human dimension and containing the ideas of liberty, democracy and liberalism….
…based on the Master’s dissertation of the author, ‘The Security-Development Connection in the Post-2015 Development Agenda.’, defended in December 2014 [cf. PEREIRA, Carolina Alves – The Security-Development Connection in the…
…relative relevance in maritime security in the region, in face of the presence of other relevant states in the region, such as China, USA, India, Spain and Portugal, among others….