A Coastguard Academy for Southeast Asian Maritime Security
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By John Coyne
December 14, 2018
Over the last decade, maritime security concerns have featured prominently in ASEAN member states’ individual and collective agendas. Issues as diverse as China’s aggressive maritime strategy, piracy, terrorism, transnational organised crime, and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the Asia–Pacific are consistently challenging sovereignty, the rule of law and regional stability.
Malcolm Davis’s recent Strategist series on ‘forward defence in depth’ for Australia has highlighted the importance of engagement in the region in response to the Chinese government’s challenge to US primacy in the Asia–Pacific. That thinking also needs to be applied to the broader set of maritime security threats facing Australia and the region.
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