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Capacity Building for Maritime Security : The Western Indian Ocean Experience
Maritime security has become an important and innovative new area of research in International Relations and security studies. The proliferation of maritime strategies and institutions by which many states aspire to overcome common resource deficiencies and a lack of political will—often termed ‘seablindness’—through a process of capacity-building further testifies to its significance. The editors and authors of Capacity building for maritime security use comparative analysis to explore a range of capacity-building initiatives and activities, paying close attention to the specific circumstances of seven littoral states in the western Indian Ocean. They are to be commended for convening a varied group of cases for the book—which they acknowledge have many differences that prohibit the identification of strong, common patterns. The case-studies are split into two groups. The first consists of South Africa, Israel and Pakistan—relatively resource-rich countries for which capacity-building is primarily derived and driven by their own agencies. The second—Somalia, Djibouti, the Seychelles and Kenya—are major beneficiaries of external assistance. The description of the incremental efforts of each country to coordinate or integrate its available capacity and align it with the strategic imperative to protect its maritime domains and enable development is insightful.
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