The ocean is critical to the lives and livelihoods of Pacific people, and Pacific Island countries manage more than 10% of the earth’s oceans. This set of 13 papers examines what maritime security means in the Pacific Islands region, what maritime security mechanisms exist and what forms of assistance partners are providing in the region.

Papers

1. Cooperation to manage Pacific fisheries
2. The legal and regulatory environment for maritime security cooperation in the Pacific Islands
3. Security cooperation to respond to maritime-based transnational crime
4. Managing geopolitical tensions to advance maritime security cooperation
5. Security cooperation to deliver maritime-based humanitarian assistance and disaster relief and resilience and search and rescue
6. The involvement of non-sovereign territories in maritime security cooperation
7. Australia’s involvement in maritime security cooperation in and with the Pacific Islands
8. New Zealand’s involvement in maritime security cooperation in and with the Pacific Islands
9. The United States’ maritime security cooperation in and with the Pacific Islands
10. France’s maritime security cooperation in the Pacific
11. India’s involvement in maritime security cooperation in and with the Pacific Islands
12. South Korea and Japan’s involvement in maritime security cooperation in and with the Pacific Islands
13. China’s involvement in maritime security cooperation in and with the Pacific Islands.