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- How to Secure the Black Sea During a Russia-Ukrainian Ceasefire - CSIS
Yet any maritime security arrangement must be balanced against the constraints of the Montreux Convention, which regulates naval access to the Black Sea, and against existing requirements for NATO members to guard their coastal waters and key sea lines of communication that connect Europe to the world While these limitations complicate manning
- Responding to China’s Growing Influence in Ports of the Global South
Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade Around 80 percent of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea; this figure is even greater for developing countries Lower-income countries and small islands are 1 5 to 2 times more reliant on their ports for global trade than the global average
- The Neglected Domain - CSIS
NATO’s maritime capacity shrunk significantly following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and most of the new entrants to NATO after 1994 brought very few maritime assets of value Exacerbating this decline, the combat operations that NATO militaries entered into in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003) had significant ground and air components
- India’s Membership of the CMF: Mapping the Future of India-U. S . . . - CSIS
India’s full membership of the multinational U S -led Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), announced in November 2023, represents a step change in India-U S ties India’s membership of the force— commanded by a U S Navy vice admiral—actualizes a scenario where a senior Indian naval officer potentially co-leads one of the CMF’s five
- Ship Wars: Confronting China’s Dual-Use Shipbuilding Empire - CSIS
China is leveraging its globally dominant commercial shipbuilding industry to support its naval modernization—and foreign companies are inadvertently helping This report outlines how the United States and its partners can confront China's dual-use shipyards
- China’s Maritime Silk Road: Strategic and Economic . . . - CSIS
China unveiled the concept for the Twenty-First Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) in 2013 as a development strategy to boost infrastructure connectivity throughout Southeast Asia, Oceania, the Indian Ocean, and East Africa The MSR is the maritime complement to the Silk Road Economic Belt, which
- The Sea in Russian Strategy with Andrew Monaghan and Richard . . . - CSIS
In this episode, Max and Maria are joined by Andrew Monaghan and Richard Connolly to discuss their most recent work, "The sea in Russian strategy," a new edited volume on the growing importance of naval and maritime concerns in Moscow's foreign policy
- China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Economic Drivers and . . . - CSIS
China’s leaders have mapped out an ambitious plan, the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), to establish three “blue economic passages” that will connect Beijing with economic hubs around the world 1 It is the maritime dimension of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which could include $1–4 trillion in new roads
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