Pacific Ocean Non-Traditional Security Cooperative Research

The sea is the second living space for human beings, It is crucial for our living、production and development. The pacific is the world’s largest ocean. The21Centuryis the maritime century. It’s crucial to maintain the security of the Pacific. But thesecurity situation of Pacific is complex. In the field of traditional security, Islands andterritorial disputes represented by the South China Sea controversy brought seriousregional tensions, and also, The Pacific is also faced with complex maritimenon-traditional maritime security threats, such as maritime disasters and marinetransnational crimes. The traditional and nontraditional maritime security threats areintertwined, which makes the regional maritime security situation furthercomplicated.This dissertation aims to explore the cooperation in dealing with non-traditionalmaritime security threats in the Pacific, Firstly, It analyzes the theoretical connotationof maritime non-traditional security, Combined with the concept of maritime securityand non traditional security, it defined it as the non-traditional security threatscountries faced from the sea, including maritime environmental security、maritimetransnational crime, etc. Compared with the traditional maritime security, thenon-traditional maritime security doesn’t come from sovereigns, has Global features、more abundant connotation and diversified coping measures. According to theconcrete reality of the Pacific non-traditional maritime security, the dissertationdivided it into maritime natural disaster、transnational crime、resource security andothers. And also, It analyzed the characteristics of the maritime non-traditionalsecurity threats in Pacific, including violent、 destructive、 sudden、 complex、transnational and diverse characteristics.The means to deal with these threats include traditional security means、non-traditional security means and institutions.These means coping with these threats suchas institutions play a certain role, but they are also insufficient, including：limitedcoverage、lack of binding force and inherently limitations. The traditional securitymeans this dissertation defined is force means including military means, aimed to deal with the maritime non-traditional security threats in the Pacific, used not for war orstrategy. It belongs to the sovereign state、has special operation way、includesconfrontation and non-confrontation, and also, it’s intuitive visible and applied tospecific areas.This means mainly includes army、maritime coast guard and others,combined with diplomacy, having the advantages such as strong、timely、effective、organized and deterrent, On the other hand, its application domain is limited、restricted by state sovereignty, and also, it only has limited effect but relatively highcost. Its main application domains include patrol and strike、 disaster relief、International joint military exercises.In practice, The traditional security means also have some deficiencies. such as:the contradiction between traditional security means cooperation and state sovereigntyin fighting against piracy; the lack of attention to the fundamental issue in Disasterrelief；traditional security factors still dominate the maritime military exercises; and soon. In the future, the early warning mechanism should be set up, nip in the bud; Thecapacity-building in traditional security means should be strengthened; The relatedmechanisms should be created. From the characteristics of the maritimenon-traditional security and the advantages of the traditional security means, thesemeans will play a bigger role in this area.