Maritime Security Challenges in the South Atlantic

This edited volume focuses on the South Atlantic regional and national issues with maritime implications: naval policy, security, transnational organized crime, and Europe's legacy and current influence. The work analyzes the positions in favor and against NATO's extended role in the South Atlantic, the historical and current issues related to the Falklands War, the African national deficits, and initiatives to attend the regional maritime problems. Including contributions from Angolan, Brazilian, Senegalese, and US collaborators, the volume offers eclectic conceptual frameworks, rich historical backgrounds, updated data, original analysis models, and policy recommendations.

Offers eclectic conceptual frameworks, rich historical backgrounds, updated data, original analysis models, and policy recommendations Focuses on the South Atlantic regional and national issues with maritime implications: naval policy, transnational organized crime, and European legacy Includes contributions from the US, Africa, and South America

Autorentext

É**rico Duarte** is Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Manuel Correia de Barros is Founder and Deputy Chairman at the Center for Strategic Studies of Angola, Angola.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Facing the Transnational Criminal Organisations in the South Atlantic.- 3. The Impacts of Neo-Colonial Security Frameworks in the South Atlantic: The Case of French Presence in Western Africa.- 4. The Possibility of NATO and Portuguese Presence in the South Atlantic Ocean.- 5. Antarctica as a South Atlantic Maritime Security Issue.- 6. Reflections on the Ends, Ways, and Means of Maritime Security Cooperation in the South Atlantic.- 7. The African Way of Warfare and its Challenge to the South Atlantic Security.- 8. Conclusion.