The seas of our insecurity: Ordinary versus state discourses on maritime and human security in the Philippines

• Main Author: Contreras, Antonio P.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Piracy > Philippines; Human security > Philippines; Political Science
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/605
• Institution: De La Salle University

The dominant discourse on maritime security in the Philippines is one that projects threats in the form of armed invasion of its territorial waters, of pirates threatening the safety of its sea-lanes, and more recently, of armed terrorists attacking its resorts and bombing its sailing vessels. On th...