Maritime security: How geopolitics hardens threat patterns at sea and challenges known solutions

Geopolitics is going to sea Danish and international policy attention on maritime matters has in recent decades focused on maritime crime, e.g. piracy, illegal fishing and drugs trafficking. Yet threats to maritime security are less and less limited to maritime crime. In the face of the recent (re)turn to geopolitics in foreign policy, a global trend is emerging where regional waterways serve as spaces of power projection. Indeed, state and non-state actors are increasingly asserting control and coercion short of war.