MARITIME SECURITY: Belgium's interests and options

Good order at sea is critical to the trading interests of virtually every economy on the planet. The maritime domain is the next “great frontier” of global growth. Yet, at a time of ever increasing connectivity between societies and economies, smaller countries too seldom see their particular interests and status scrutinized in the wider debate over “whose order” should prevail at sea . There is an intrinsically political dimension to the “ordering of the global commons” that can simultaneously consolidate or erode existing practices of global

Source: EGMONT - The Royal Institute for International Relations