ABSTRACT
The chapter highlights the growing importance of maritime security as a new security perspective for policymakers in Papua New Guinea. It discusses the country's maritime interests, derived from the UN's list of maritime security threats, and the national security priority areas outlined in the country's National Security Policy (NSP). It connects the national security priority areas and their proposed implementation strategies with the identified maritime interests and their key objectives to identify the approaches taken to defend its maritime interests. It points out that the country's national security is not properly coordinated due to the government's inability to fully implement the NSP. There is a serious misalignment between security sector policies like the National Oceans Policy, the updated Defence White Paper, and the NSP. The country does not have a foreign policy white paper (FPWP) to help security sector agencies to formulate their policies and legislation. It is recommended that the government update and fully implement the NSP, maritime security be included as a chapter in the updated NSP, focus on helping all security sector agencies align their policies, and the government to formulate a FPWP to help set a policy framework.
