In Maritime Security Cooperation in the Guinea: Prospects and Challenges, Kamal-Deen Ali provides ground-breaking analyses of the maritime security situation in the Gulf of Guinea and its implications for shipping, energy security, sustainable fisheries as well as national and regional security. The book juxtaposes the growing strategic importance of the Gulf of Guinea against the rising insecurity in the maritime domain, especially from piracy. Ali points out key gaps in prevailing regional and international approaches to maritime security cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea and sets out several suggestions for combating piracy as well as other maritime security threats while effectively enhancing maritime security cooperation in the region.

In 'Maritime Security Cooperation in the Gulf of Guinea', Kamal-Deen Ali provides ground-breaking analyses of the maritime security situation in this area.

The EU has long played the role of a critical maritime security provider in the Gulf. Its efforts, however, have been perceived to have dual effects: they are mutually beneficial and also - more controversially - seen as infringements of regional sovereignty. This dualism is further aggravated by the region's volatility as a centre of great-power competition. Africa and the EU can either leverage their long-standing partnership to galvanise efforts in the shared agenda of enhancing maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea or face heightened geopolitical tension characterised by sovereignty versus great-power competition in the region. Given the fluidity and synergy of the ocean space, the former provides a unique opportunity to shape the context of Africa-EU relations far beyond the confines of the Gulf of Guinea in a manner that will be mutually beneficial to both parties.

To offer security in the maritime domain, governments around the world need the capabilities to directly confront common threats like piracy, drug-trafficking, and illegal immigration. No single navy or nation can do this alone. Recognizing this new international security landscape, the former Chief of Naval Operations called for a collaborative international approach to maritime security, initially branded the "1,000-ship Navy." This concept envisions U.S. naval forces partnering with multinational, federal, state, local and private sector entities to ensure freedom of navigation, the flow of commerce, and the protection of ocean resources. This new book from the National Research Council examines the technical and operational implications of the "1,000-ship Navy," as they apply to four levels of cooperative efforts: U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and merchant shipping only; U.S. naval and maritime assets with others in treaty alliances or analogous arrangements; U.S. naval and maritime assets with ad hoc coalitions; and U.S. naval and maritime assets with others than above who may now be friendly but could potentially be hostile, for special purposes such as deterrence of piracy or other criminal activity.

The Gulf of Guinea maritime environment accounts for between 70-90 percent of the revenue of the states in the region. In addition to its rich forestry, fisheries reserves, and massive mineral and hydrocarbon deposits, it also houses the largest volumes of the region's oil and gas, which are still its most valued natural resources. Thus, its economic importance has been of great regional and global interest at all times. Invariably, the economic prosperity, or otherwise, of the states in the region is intrinsically tied to the peace and security of the Gulf. This primary and strategic position of the Gulf in the socio-economic survival and development of the states in the region critically underscores the huge importance of its general security, which in recent years and decades has been blighted by many security challenges. Dele Ezeoba's Maritime Security: Imperatives for Economic Development in the Gulf of Guinea extensively engages the dynamics and dialectics of security and economic development in the chosen maritime area, and establishes theoretical and practical mechanisms that should be deployed in combating security threats in the maritime space, and opening up the region to greater development. It offers enterprising vistas of intellectual designs in addressing critical issues of maritime security and economic prosperity.

DoD commissioned the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) to conduct this strategic evaluation of DoD MARSEC efforts in the Gulf of Guinea (GoG). The evaluation was designed to answer two questions: 1. Has the United States achieved, or is the United States on track to achieve, its maritime-related strategic objectives in the GoG at the country and regional levels? 2. How, if at all, has U.S. maritime SC from 2007 through 2018 contributed to meeting these objectives? This summary, developed by ODASD(SC), provides unclassified primary findings, conclusions, and recommendations derived from CNA’s evaluation report.