The next Maritime Cyber Security Centre Research Seminar will be conducted via MS Teams on 18 February at 13:00-15:00. Dr. Christian Bueger, Professor at the University of Copenhagen and a Research Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), will be presenting on the topic of "Key Challenges in Global Maritime Security Governance”.
Short bio
Dr. Christian Bueger is a professor at the University of Copenhagen and a research fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). He has analyzed issues of international security and global governance in more than 200 publications. He is the author of ‘Understanding Maritime Security’, published with Oxford University Press in 2024. He regularly speaks at high-level policy forums, including the United Nations Security Council in 2025, NATO’s Operations Policy Committee and the European Council.
Introductory Remarks by the Speaker
In this talk, Prof. Christian Bueger reflects on the state of global maritime security governance. Drawing on his book Understanding Maritime Security (published in 2024 by Oxford University Press, coauthored with Tim Edmunds) and recent research, he offers a brief reconstruction of the global governance system that addresses maritime security. He shows that complexity is on the increase, but that there is a trend to dedifferentiation at the same time. He argues that arising challenges, such as maritime cyber security, critical maritime infrastructure protection or the return of naval mine warfare call for more effective and agile patchwork governance approaches.