Strategic Importance and Maritime Terrorism in the Strait of Malacca

Abstract

The Research’s goal is to conduct a comprehensive assessment regarding the strategic importance and the issue of maritime terrorism in the Strait of Malacca, in other words, the study will focus on the geostrategic importance of Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia, in addition to the fact that this region was and still is the center of attention, strategic interest and control projects. A number of major international powers have been competing there for centuries. This importance stems from the important geographical location and the economic importance of the region, in addition to global energy security, which depends in its largest part on the security of the sea lanes in the region, on top of which is the Strait of Malacca. These factors have made the Strait of Malacca a hotbed of current and future geostrategic, geo-economic and geopolitical competition between the most important regional and global powers.