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Access to, maneuverability within, and use of the global maritime domain are increasingly contested due to long-term trends such as shifts in global maritime trade patterns, rivalries prompted by the strive for resource supply security, demographic trends in key coastal areas, and maritime power projection by different actors. In the future, it will be more and more important to explore what is going on in the deep sea and one question will be key: Given the tectonic shift of power from industrialized countries to a multi-polar international framework who is going to set the rules, norms, principles, and standards relevant for maritime surveillance and thus the command of the global maritime domain?