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Grey and White Hulls

An International Analysis of the Navy-Coastguard Nexus

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  • Details how states divide military and civil roles in the Navy-Coastguard Nexus

  • Elaborates on how states around the world are responding to traditional and non-traditional maritime threats

  • Includes in-depth treatment on how navies and coastguards are employed to attain several national interests

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Southeast Asia

  2. Europe

  3. North and South America

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About this book

This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the diversity in international approaches to the navy-coastguard nexus. It considers the evolving global maritime security landscape and the emergence and proliferation of maritime law enforcement agencies—collectively referred to here as “coastguards”—performing peacetime constabulary duties alongside navies. Through a cross-regional study of various countries worldwide, including those in Asia and Europe, this book reveals that there is no one optimal, “one size fits all” organizational structure. Instead, there is a wide array of drivers that influence a nation-state’s maritime security architecture and its organizational approach to managing security at sea, or broadly speaking, securing its national maritime interests. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Ian Bowers

  • S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Swee Lean Collin Koh

About the editors

Ian Bowers is an associate professor at the Institute for Strategy, Royal Danish Defence College. His research focuses on seapower, deterrence, military technology and South Korean defence policy. He holds a PhD in War Studies from King’s College London, United Kingdom.



Collin Koh Swee Lean is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, a constituent unit of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). His research focuses on maritime security and naval affairs in the Indo-Pacific, focusing on Southeast Asia in particular.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Grey and White Hulls

  • Book Subtitle: An International Analysis of the Navy-Coastguard Nexus

  • Editors: Ian Bowers, Swee Lean Collin Koh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9242-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9241-2Published: 11 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9244-3Published: 12 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9242-9Published: 25 September 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 292

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Maritime Economics, International Security Studies, Military and Defence Studies

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