Ports, crime and security : governing and policing seaports in a changing world /
The COVID-19 pandemic, Brexit and the US-China trade dispute have heightened interest in the geopolitics and security of modern ports. Applying a multidisciplinary lens to the political economy of port security, this book presents a unique outlook on the social, economic and political factors that s...
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Background
- The space of the port and the port as space
- Emerging themes from the Secur. Port workshop
- Complex governance structure and cooperation
- Security versus trade
- Technology and cybersecurity
- Blind zones: corruption
- The port-city interface and the port-sea interface
- Book structure
- 1 Ports: Economy, Institutions and Society
- Territories, flows, networks
- Placing ports in the world economy: analytical toolkits
- Governing and regulating ports
- Making ports: environment and actors
- Licit and illicit as endogenous dynamic
- Conclusions
- 2 Policing Complex Criminality in and through Major Seaports
- Introduction
- Organized crime and complex criminality in and through ports
- High policing, security and ports
- Policing complex crimes: between local and global dimensions of ports
- Policing illicit trafficking
- Case no. 1
- Case no. 2
- Policing infiltration and organizational crimes
- Case no. 3
- Case no. 4
- Policing extra-legal governance
- Case no. 5
- Case no. 6
- Discussion and conclusion
- 3 Governance of Security in Ports
- Introduction
- Vocabulary to address security governance
- Lessons learned on security governance in ports
- Importance of flows and ports as hybrid spaces
- Plural policing and nodal mapping
- Zooming in on relations between security providers in ports
- The importance of regulation and accountability
- Conclusion and reflections
- 4 The Future of Port Security
- Introduction
- The 'long shadow' of the ISPS Code
- The politics of the ISPS Code
- Placing ports within maritime capacity building initiatives
- Situating small or informal ports and waterways
- Technology, digitization and automation
- Cybersecurity
- Technology and corruption
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Emerging themes from the book
- Going forward: change and continuity
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover
