Category Archives: Podcast

Main podcast series of CIMSEC.

Sea Control 465 – China’s Floating Nuclear Power Plants with Omar Pimentel and Edward Jenner

By Nathan Miller

Omar Pimentel and Edward Jenner join the program to discuss their recent paper for the Center for Global Security Research entitled, Uncharted Waters: Assessing China’s Intentions to Deploy Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the South China Sea.

Omar Pimentel is currently working with the Defense Innovation Unit and has previously worked at NASA Headquarters’ Office of Technology Policy and Strategy (OTPS), and in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Edward Jenner is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and was also a Senior Reactor Operator at the Irvine Reactor Facility.

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Links

1. Uncharted Waters: Assessing China’s Intentions to Deploy Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the South China Sea, by Jonathan Deemer, Omar Pimentel, Mi Jin Ryu, Miku Yamada, and Edward Jenner, Center for Global Security Research, June 2023.

Nathan Miller is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast, and edited and produced this episode. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

Sea Control 464 – The Newport Manual with Dr. James Kraska and Professor Pete Pedrozo

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. James Kraska and Professor Pete Pedrozo join us to discuss the Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare.

Dr. Kraska is chair and Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law in the Stockton Center for International Law at the U.S. Naval War College.

Professor Pedrozo is the Howard S. Levie Professor on the Law of Armed Conflict, U.S. Naval War College, Stockton Center for International Law.

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Links

1. The Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare, by James Kraska, Pete Pedrozo, et al., International Law Studies, U.S. Naval War College, 2023.
2. “Radioactive Tsunamis: Nuclear Torpedo Drones and Their Legality in War,” by Pete Pedrozo, CIMSEC, September 4, 2023.
3. San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea.

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Nate Miller.

Sea Control 463 – EU Maritime Security with Giovanni Cremonini

By Alexia Bouallagui

Giovanni Cremonini joins the program to discuss the update to the EU Maritime Security Strategy. Cremonini is the Head of the Sector for Maritime Security in the Security and Defense Policy Directorate of the European Union External Action Service.

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Links

1. “Joint communication on the update of the EU Maritime Security Strategy and its Action Plan: An enhanced EU Maritime Security Strategy for evolving maritime threats,” by EU Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, March 10, 2023.

Alexia Bouallagui is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

Brendan Costello edited and produced this episode.

Sea Control 462 – Ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea with Daniel Abed-Navandi

By Nathan Miller

Dr. Daniel Abed-Navandi joins the program to discuss the book he co-authored with Georg Glaeser entitled, Ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea: A Photographic Dive.

Dr. Daniel Abed-Navandi is deputy director and curator in Vienna’s Haus des Meeres – Aqua Terra Zoo, and a marine biology lecturer at the Department of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Vienna.

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Links

1. Ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea: A Photographic Dive, by Daniel Abed-Navandi and Georg Glaeser, Springer, 2023.

Nathan Miller edited and produced this episode, and is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.