Maritime Studies Visions and Perspectives

The Post-Graduate Program in Maritime Studies (PPGEM), implemented in 2014 at the Naval War College (EGN), was a pioneering program of its kind in Brazil. Inserted in the area of knowledge of Political Science and International Relations, it was approved in the professional modality by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES), because the Brazilian Navy understands that, with this configuration, it will meet the demands of the maritime field with full efficiency. Its main academic aspects are the area of concentration in Defense, Governance and Maritime Security, in addition to three Research Lines (Maritime Policy and Strategy: Sea Use Regulation, Decision Making Process and Prospective Methods; and Policy and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation in the Maritime Environment). The PPGEM also has an outstanding set of human resources, which are focused on the tasks of training people in the maritime field. This compilation of scientific papers has as main purpose to disseminate data and information pertinent to the area of concentration being conducted by students, with the help of some professors, in order to demonstrate not only the relevance of the field of maritime studies but also the diversity and complexity of geopolitical, historical, technical-scientific and maritime law themes. By mid-July 2019, a total of 64 master's degree dissertations were presented and defended, reaffirming the significant productivity of the PPGEM, which in the CAPES academic evaluation in 2018 obtained the highest grade for a post-graduate program with only a master's degree course content, the grade five. Due to this considerable performance, CAPES authorized the creation of a doctoral course already inserted in the PPGEM, which was inaugurated in 2019. Thus, in a clear and singular way in the synthesis, this book is presented with the purpose of demonstrating the plurality and innovation of issues related to the sea.