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Expert contributors confront both the maritime security challenges and responses, identifying the nature of the maritime security problem and critically evaluating the various responses with an eye to improving the management of prevailing and emerging security threats.

International Maritime Security Law by James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo defines an emerging interdisciplinary field of law and policy comprised of norms, legal regimes, and rules to address today's hybrid threats to the global order of the oceans. Worldwide shipping commerce, fishing fleets, pleasure craft, and coastal states are exposed to the menace of offshore terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, piracy, smuggling, robbery, marine insurgency and anti-access threats. Land-based institutions and maritime constabulary forces operate within an increasingly integrated network that blends elements of humanitarian law, human rights law, criminal law, and law of the sea, with inspection regimes, commercial enterprise, and marine safety and environmental stewardship. The new authorities fuse together a global maritime partnership among states, international organizations and commercial interests to protect the maritime commons from the most dangerous risks and hazards

The security of Japan's maritime borders is a top priority for the country's government. The roles of the Japan Coast Guard and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force are paramount in these security operations as Japan navigates an international landscape in the East China Sea complicated by an emboldened China.

Introducing Maritime Security: The Sea as a Geostrategic Space -- Oceans and Blue Economies -- Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing as a Maritime Security Concern -- Smuggling and Trafficking of Illicit Goods by Sea -- Migration, Seafarers and the Humanitarian-Security-Economic Regimes Complex at Sea -- Maritime Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea.-Maritime Boundaries and Maritime Security -- Cybersecurity at Sea -- Maritime Terrorism -- Port Security; R. Talas -- The Success and Struggles of Multilateralism: African Maritime Security and Strategy -- The Role of Navies in the Contemporary Era -- Non-State Actors in the Maritime Domain: Non-State Responses to Maritime Security Challenges -- Connecting the Dots: Implications of the Intertwined Global Challenges to Maritime Security.