Webinar Report: Maritime Security Governance and the Future Challenges

Maritime security in the Indo-Pacific has grown increasingly complex amid rapid technological and geopolitical change. In this context, the Institute for Security & Development Policy (ISDP), in collaboration with Murdoch University’s Indo-Pacific Research Centre (IPRC), convened a lecture by Captain Sarabjeet S. Parmar (Retd), Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Strategy and Defence Research (CSDR), on the theme Maritime Security Governance and the Future Challenges.

This report summarizes Captain Parmar’s presentation and the subsequent discussion, which examined the evolving dynamics of maritime security in the Indo-Pacific. The discussion outlined the rise of both traditional and hybrid threats, the growing salience of issues such as piracy, rerouting of sea lines of communication (SLOCs), submarine cable vulnerabilities, and seabed mining. It also explored the interplay between freedom of navigation and sovereignty under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the SEA (UNCLOS), the impact of China’s expanding maritime claims, and the varied responses of the United States and its allies.