The paper is generally based on deductive reasoning and reflects scholarship in security studies, political science, international law, international relation, development studies, and African studies. Simultaneously, regional and global ocean governance relations have changed continuously, particularly when we are trying to understand their differences within the logic of regionalisation, regionalism, and globalisation.
Regional and global ocean governance share complex, co-evolutionary histories in which both regimes – among others – interacted with and used the ocean and resources therein to consolidate, expand, and express power.
3World Ocean Council, Honolulu, HI, United States.2African Marine Environment Sustainability Initiative, Lagos, Nigeria.1Global Ocean Accounts Partnership, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.