Maritime Security Concerns in the Emerging Global Order: An African View on the Red Sea
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The Red Sea has become a microcosm of intensifying militarization, great power projections and strategic architecture plays unfolding at the global scale alongside regional conflicts. While linked intricately with the geopolitics surrounding the Suez Canal, it also poses distinct security challenges like weapons smuggling, human trafficking and piracy emanating from multiple conflict zones in proximity like Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. These have prompted external responses like the Saudi-led Coalition’s naval blockade of Yemen and expanding foreign military bases ringing the Red Sea, even as maritime governance remains an imperative for littoral states. This paper explores maritime security in the Red Sea against the backdrop of globally fluid geopolitics from an African perspective. It surveys the evolving maritime security landscape and key issues like piracy before situating African interests, strategic postures and engagements amid a phase of heightened militarization of the Red Sea arena. The paper analyzes how wider global transformations and emerging rivalry affect African capacity in securing neighborhood zones and asks what collective maritime governance frameworks could address both regional and Pan-African needs. The paper also examines continental strategy documents along with perspectives, roles and challenges for players like the African Union (AU), before proposing policy ideas. The premise is to argue for pragmatic yet assertive African agency blending external partnerships, local capacity building and multilateral initiatives as crucial for constructive and enduring maritime stability governance.
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The Red Sea has become a microcosm of intensifying militarization, great power projections and strategic architecture plays unfolding at the global scale alongside regional conflicts. While linked intricately with the geopolitics surrounding the Suez Canal, it also poses distinct security challenges like weapons smuggling, human trafficking and piracy emanating from multiple conflict zones in proximity like Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. These have prompted external responses like the Saudi-led Coalition’s naval blockade of Yemen and expanding foreign military bases ringing the Red Sea, even as maritime governance remains an imperative for littoral states. This paper explores maritime security in the Red Sea against the backdrop of globally fluid geopolitics from an African perspective. It surveys the evolving maritime security landscape and key issues like piracy before situating African interests, strategic postures and engagements amid a phase of heightened militarization of the Red Sea arena. The paper analyzes how wider global transformations and emerging rivalry affect African capacity in securing neighborhood zones and asks what collective maritime governance frameworks could address both regional and Pan-African needs. The paper also examines continental strategy documents along with perspectives, roles and challenges for players like the African Union (AU), before proposing policy ideas. The premise is to argue for pragmatic yet assertive African agency blending external partnerships, local capacity building and multilateral initiatives as crucial for constructive and enduring maritime stability governance.
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