Publication

This paper explores issues of maritime security in the Southeast Asian region. The author argues that maritime security in the Southeast Asian seas should take the interests of stakeholders like India and the South Asian countries (who use these seas as a major trade route) into consideration. Secondly, he states that issues of maritime security overarch issues of terrorism as well as trade and have to be handled holistically. He concludes that since economic growth in Asia is expected to outpace the rest of the world in the next two decades, and that commodities such as fuel and finished products will overwhelmingly have to depend on these trade routes, initiatives and cooperation, therefore, cannot be viewed only in terms of cost benefits, but through a larger worldview of regional security.