Abstract
This book is the first volume of the Operational Maritime Law series. The series provides a platform for practitioners and scholars with specific interest in current operational maritime law issues, to publish research advancing legal discourse, as well as analysing current issues. The theme of the first volume is Operational Law in International Straits and Current Maritime Security Challenges. This volume is broken down into three parts. Part I explores international straits in an operational law context, Part II discusses current subjects on maritime security and maritime safety and Part III offers some thoughts on the law of armed conflict at sea. This introduction highlights today’s maritime challenges in naval operations and provides an explanation of the relevance of each section of the publication. In regard to operational maritime law, three strands, in particular, stand out: maritime security, focus on persons and non-international armed conflict. Furthermore, in terms of positioning the law applicable for naval operations within the context of international law, it is argued that this area may be seen as a sub-regime of the international law of military operations.
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See the website of the CEO CSW at: http://www.coecsw.org/.
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NATO has adopted its Alliance Maritime Strategy (AMS) in 2011. The EU adopted its EU-Maritime Security Strategy (EUMSS) in 2015.
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NATO (2016).
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Gill and Fleck (2015), p. 5.
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Arguably the term operational maritime law encompasses a broader term than the law of naval operations, because the ‘naval’ emphases the military, where maritime includes all maritime activities of a State.
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Kraska and Pedrozo (2013), p. 5.
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Fink, M., Dickey, R., Schildknecht, J., Ferris, L. (2018). Introduction: Challenges in Operational Maritime Law. In: Schildknecht, J., Dickey, R., Fink, M., Ferris, L. (eds) Operational Law in International Straits and Current Maritime Security Challenges. Operational Maritime Law, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72718-9_1
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