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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sergi, Anna (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2021.
Colección:Bristol shorts research.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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