This report discusses the need and potential for the establishment of a maritime security regime (MSR) in the Western Indian Ocean. Such an MSR should be tasked with in the region. For the last several years the threat to maritime security and freedom of navigation has first and foremost been piracy originating from Somali territory but active in large parts of the Western Indian Ocean. However, a decade ago the threat came from militant Islamic terrorist groups, as it materialised in the attack on a French tanker in October 2002. Nearly three decades ago threats in the region consisted of attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf carried out by the parties in the Iran- Iraq war and allegedly Libyan mining of the Red Sea. At the time of writing, in 2012, tensions between the West and Iran has resulted in Iranian threats to block the Strait of Hormuz by military means.
Multinational Experiment 7. Regional Analysis: Western Indian Ocean
2013
37 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Behavior & Society , International Commerce, Marketing, & Economics , Military Operations, Strategy, & Tactics , Joint military activities , Case studies , Cooperation , Indian ocean , International relations , International trade , Naval forces , Southwest asia , Terrorists , Western security(International) , Mne(Multinational experiment) , Msr(Maritime security region) , Piracy , Hoa(Horn of africa)
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