ABSTRACT
The chapter examines maritime security through the lens of securitisation theory. This approach focuses on the politics of considering maritime issues as threats to some valued referent object. It can for example be used to trace how the seas have been considered a space of insecurity and reconstruct how issues such as transnational crime have been incorporated into states’ security agendas. As with other types of security, maritime issues are not ones of security on their own but require politics to be considered as such.
