Maritime Strategy and Security Programme

The ANCORS research programme in Maritime Strategy and Security represents in its totality a coordinated and multifaceted set of research projects linked to a central concern with Australia 's maritime security. ANCORS' research into Australia 's maritime security is driven by two main factors. Firstly, it recognizes the need for multidisciplinary research that can draw attention to the importance of protecting Australia 's maritime rights and interests against a growing and diverse range of threats and challenges, and develops strategy, policy and legal solutions to improve the security of our maritime environment. Secondly, the research investigates ways in which Australia , as an island state with extensive maritime zones, can utilize its maritime environment and other maritime factors to enhance its wider national interests in the Asia-Pacific regional, and wider international, contexts.

Each of the five areas of research focus set out in the diagram below comprises a comprehensive range of individual research topics. The projects link considerations of policy, strategy, geography and technology with Australia 's surrounding oceanic environment and extensive maritime interests to form the only integrated national programme of research in maritime strategy and security.