Maritime Cooperation in South Asia: RCSS Policy Studies 53

Published in association with the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies in Sri Lanka, this book examines the maritime issues facing South Asia, including boundary problems, fisheries conflicts, nonmilitary and nontraditional security threats, and environmental problems. This study seeks to facilitate solutions to these problems through regional cooperation. Through comparative analysis of efforts at India–Pakistan and India–Sri Lanka bilateral maritime cooperation, fisheries and non-military security cooperation emerged as areas of common to both. This study argues that these areas ought to be included in the evolving agenda for South Asian maritime cooperation. At the same time, given the international character of the maritime domain, efforts must be made to coordinate evolving South Asian maritime cooperation with similar efforts on the neighboring regions and the world.