This volume identifies those issues that affect Australia and New Zealand's maritime security, evaluating the issues from legal and political perspectives, as well as examining the issues within the broad framework of international law and politics. The book also addresses considerations in the Pacific, Asian and Antarctic regions.
"This book brings together an analysis [...] of maritime security written by a group of outstanding Australian and New Zealand scholars in international law and relations. While the focus is regional, the challenges and responses are of universal significance."- Ivan Shearer, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
"The authors have responded to the growing need to address the important legal issues affecting maritime security for the region around Australia and New Zealand, producing the first and only book to do so. Their work is a comprehensive and well balanced treatment of the issues, providing a high quality resource useful to scholars, students and policymakers considering maritime security in the Australasian region."- Greg Rose, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong, Australia"This book contains a wealth of factual information as well as many insightful ideas and comments."- Dr Michael Underdown, Australian & New Zealand Maritime Law Journal, 2010
"This collection is excellent and has an importance well beyond the shores of Australia and New Zealand."- Prof Ted McDorman, University of Victoria, Ocean Developmentand International Law, 2010
"Maintaining a broad overview of the topic, and including resource and environmental considerations gives this book a much wider appeal to readers from other regions and disciplines. It also provides a useful standard for comparison by analysts from other regions who might wish to undertake a similar examination of their own policies and legislation." - Hugh R. Williamson, Dalhousie University, Ocean Yearbook Volume 25 2011
"This volume provides an interesting Australian and New Zealand perspective on maritime security issues, by examining policy and legal issues to show that contrary to the tensions that exist within the academic field, both disciplines are not only necessary but inextricably linked." - Andrew Forbes, International Journal of Maritime History, December 2010 (Volume XXII, No. 2)
