Maritime Counterproliferation Operations and the Rule of Law
Series: PSI Reports
Craig H. Allen
0-275-99698-0/978-0-275-99698-7
Description
Provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues surrounding maritime counterproliferation operations under the Proliferation Security Initiative launched more than three years ago.
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In free societies and global market economies, terrorism has its choice of carriers. Although the public tends to focus on air transport, seagoing craft are especially vulnerable in terms of security. Allen, who is also a master mariner and academic maritime journalist, examines the risks of terrorism associated with the sea, including transport of personnel and materiel such as weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). He describes how deadly cargoes are developed by undeterrable or irrational enemies, security policies and practices now in place such as the WMD nonproliferation regime, multilateral counter-proliferation initiatives, the role of information and intelligence, the conduct of maritime counter-terrorism security operations, applicable international laws, preserving the rule of law in interceptions and boarding, and the compensation of the innocent in terms of state responsibility and liability.
—Reference & Research Book News
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"Some of the strengths of this book are the concise and readable introduction to the non-proliferation multilateral treaty regime (chapter 3); the brief notes on the evolution and responses to the PSI (chapter four); and the operational reality regarding intelligence in maritime counterproliferation operations (chapter five). […] For ocean lawyers or those interested in maritime security matters, Allen's contribution to the literature is both accessible and important."
—International Journal of Maritime History
About the Author
Craig H. Allen
is the Judson Falknor Professor of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle. He joined the university faculty in 1996, following his retirement from the U.S. Coast Guard. He is a licensed master mariner and serves on the U.S. Navigation Safety Council. He is also on the board of editors of
Ocean Development and International Law
and is the author of
Farwell's Rules of the Nautical Road
(Naval Institute Press, 2004). For the 2006-2007 academic year he served as the Charles H. Stockton Chair in International Law at the U.S. Naval War College.
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