Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region: Compelling and Convergent Agendas
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...This is not to say that NTS issues have not catalysed security cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region, as they most assuredly have, particularly in the realm of maritime security (Akaha, 2002; Cordner, 2010; Paul, 2011), only that discussions of this topic are beyond the scope of this paper....
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...The prevalence of conflicts and insurgencies provides the arms smugglers with a ready market in areas such as the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.46 Drugs and arms smuggling is rife in much of the Indian Ocean.47...
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...The IPCC Report also reveals that coastal regions and low-lying areas would increasingly experience submergence, coastal erosion and coastal flooding.75 For countries like Maldives, Kiribati and Tuvalu, which face the serious risk of submergence, climate change has become an existential MARITIME AFFAIRS Vol. 10 No. 2 Winter 2014 threat.76 Projected sea-level rise could affect millions of people living in low lying areas of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia.77 This also poses a threat of coastal erosion to the ecologically sensitive areas such as beaches, mangroves and coastal wetlands....
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...Projected sea-level rise could affect millions of people living in low lying areas of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia.(77) This also poses a threat of coastal erosion to the ecologically sensitive areas such as beaches, mangroves and coastal wetlands....
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