Publications

• Seapower Africa 2025​. Seapower Africa Symposium, 15-16 October 2024.
• Direct and indirect threats in the Western Indian Ocean,  Capt(N) Mark Blaine(ret)  SIGLA, Stell Univ
• The latent maritime potential of BRICS+, Strategic Review for Southern Africa, Prof F. Vreÿ, SIGLA Stell Univ
• ​Military drone proliferation in Africa's armed conflicts​ ​ Prof Nate Al​len. Africa Center for Strategic Studies & SIGLA Research Fellow​​
• ​Unpacking events in the eastern DR Congo.​ Prof T. Mandrup, Extraordinary Professor,  Stell Univ​​​
• ​M23 attacks and SAMIDRC in DR Congo. ​Prof T. Mandrup, Extraordinary Professor,  Stell Univ​

• South Africa's leaders must prioritise cybersecurity before it is too late​. Dr J. Mtsweni (Research Fellow, SIGLA & CSIR) & M.J. Thaba (CSIR)
• Protecting the oceans as vulnerable landscapes​. Prof F. Vreÿ SIGLA Stell Univ​
• ​​Red Sea attacks and African vulnerabilities​. Prof F. Vrey​ & Capt(N) ​M. Blaine SIGLA Stell Univ​
• SAMIM leaving Cabo Delgado with mixed results​. 02 April 2024 P​rof T. Mandrup Stell Univ & RDDC
• South Africans fighting in Gaza: What does the law say?​ 25 March 2024 Prof M. Nel - Stell Univ
• Insurgency in Mozambique , African Security Review Eeben Barlow et al (Research Fellow SIGLA)
• Red Sea hostilities have an impact on Africa, 18 February 2024 Proffs M. Nel & F. Vreÿ Stell Univ
• Security governance and African ungoverned spaces
   Proffs F.Vreÿ & T. Mandrup. (eds). Stelll Univ
• Prof T. Mandrup on SADC deployments: SADC in DRC  , ​The Conversation here​
• SA and SADC in DRC video ​here​​

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• ​Subsea infrastruc​ture off Africa. Francois Vrey, SIGLA​
• ​​Maritime cyber Special issue of Scientia Militaria ​  51/3, 2023, F. Vreÿ & D. Reeva​
• e. Sasha Bachmann, Univ of Canberra & Research Fellow​ SIGLA
• ​Special Edition: Journal of Balkan and Near Ea​stern Studies.​ Tepeciklioglu, E. Vreÿ, F. & B. B
• Maritime diplomacy in Turkey's Africa Agenda​,​ Francois Vreÿ & Mark Blaine.​​​​
• Order of oppression. Africa's quest for a new international system​. Tim Murithi in Foreign Affairs.

• ology. Noelle van der Waag-Cowling, Cyber Lead, SIGLA
• a. Noelle van der Waag-Cowling, Cyber Lead, SIGLA.​
• eats​. Research Report co-authored by Dr Nate Allen (ACSS & Research Fellow SIGLA) & Tomslin-Samme-Nlar (Independent Researcher & Cyber Res​earcher SIGLA)
• SAMIM in Cabo Delgado,DefenceWeb article from the EPON, SIGLA NUPI TfP​ webinar held on on 20 October 2022 at STIAS, Stellen​ co-​autho​red by Prof S. Bachmann, University of Canberra and Research Fellow, SIGLA​
• A future Marshall Plan for Ukraine co-authored​ by Prof S. Bachmann, University of Canberra and Research Fellow SIGLA
• ​Protecting South Africa's maritime interests​ by Prof ​F. Vreÿ, SIGLA Stellenbosch University
• Protecting subsea data cables - challenges of a new era by Prof C. Bueger et al. Copenhagen University & ​​Research Fellow SIGLA.​
• South China Sea ​by Prof S. D. Bachmann, University of Canberra & Research Fellow SIGLA.
• Underwater infrastructure by Prof C. Bueger, Copenhagen Univer​sity & Research Fellow SIGLA
• re by Prof S. D. Bachmann, University of Canberra & Research Fellow SIGLA.
• Parliamentary oversight during COVID19 by Dr W. Janse van Rensburg, Parliamentary Researcher and Research Fellow SIGLA.

Other publications 2021

• Publication from Shipping Security off Africa webinar​: 18 February 2021
• Environmental Pollution​ ​by Prof S. D. Bachmann, University of Canberra & Research Fellow SI
• Podcast ​The grey zone, hybrid war, and minilateralism​ by  Prof S.D.​ Bachmann, SIGLA Research Fello​​
• Article in The Conversation on SADC responses to the insurgency in Mozambique​.
• ​Article in The Conversation on Maritime security threats and the insurgency in ​Mozambique​.
• Article in The Conversation on Hybrid warfare​.
• Report of Stable Seas on The costs of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea.

Publications by SIGLA members and Research Fellows (Selected)

1.  Western Indian Ocean:​ Where trouble on land spells danger at sea​. Lowy Institute.​ 29 October 2020.
2. South Africa: Maritime security​ sector reform​. In: Bueger, C. Edmunds, T. & R. McCabe (eds). 2021. Capacity building for maritime security​: The Western Indian Ocean experience. Palgrave Macmillan.
3. Baser, B. & Martin, N., 2020, Collaboration between academics and journalists. Methodological considerations, challenges and ethics. Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security. 8(1).
4. Bueger, C. (Research Fellow SIGLA:) 2019, Assembling Exclusive Expertise : Knowledge, Ignorance and Conflict Resolution in the Global South. Leander, A. & Wæver, O. (eds.). London; New York: Routledge, p. 40-56 (Worlding Beyond the West).
5. Bueger, C. (Research Fellow SIGLA)  Edmunds, T. & McCabe, R., 2019, Into the sea: Capacity building innovations and the maritime security challenge.  Third World Quarterly. 41(2).
6. South African maritime foreign policy: Rethinking the role of the South African Navy. Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies. 47(2).
7. Vreÿ, F. & M. Blaine, The role of navies in the contemporary era. In: Otto, L. (ed). 2020. Global challenges in maritime security: An introduction. Springer Publications.
8. Vreÿ, F. 2019. Operation Phak​isa: Reflections upon an ambitious maritime-led government programme. Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies. 47(2).
9. Baser, B. & Halperin, A., 2019, Diasporas from the Middle East: Displacement, Transnational Identities and Homeland Politics, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 46(2).

10. Baser, B., 2019. Engaging Diasporas in Development and State-building: The Role of the Kurdish Diaspora and Returnees in Rebuilding the Kurdistan Region of Iraq​. Ethnopolitics. 18(1).

     

Measuring Maritime Security in the Western Indian Ocean Region. Policy Brief. 26 July 2020. 

1. Brits, P and Nel, M. “A wake-up call for the armed forces: towards more effective maritime law enforcement, Acta Criminologica: Southern African Journal of Criminology 29 (2) 2016. pp.17.
2. Vreÿ, F. Maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea: Threats, vulnerabilities and opportunities. 28 September 2​​016.
3. This article was specifically written for the Nanyang Business School, Singapore NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies​
4. Baser, B. & M. Toivanen. ​ "The politics of genocide recognition: Kurdish nation-building and commemoration in the post-Saddam era", Journal of Genocide
5. Research 25 June 2017. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2017.13342017
6. Bueger, C. & T. Edmunds. 2017. "​Beyond sea blindness. A new agenda for maritime security studies", ​International Affairs 93(6). pp. 1293-1311.
    

Books

• ​Authoritarian politics in Turkey. ​​Elections, resistance and the APK.  London:​ IB Taurus.
• . The African Standby Force: Quo Vadis? Stellenbosch: SunMedia.