{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsea-control.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fsea-control-588-outsourcing-security-at-sea-RLf6rxS2","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Sea Control 588: Outsourcing Security at Sea with Pieter Zhao","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/a96fead0-ddc8-474a-bb4f-d2a6b3ce274e/b7a45c37-046c-465e-87d5-c76f349e96e3/sea-20control-20jpg.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Pieter Zhao joins the program to discuss his article, “Outsourcing Security at Sea—The Return of Private Maritime-Security Companies and Their Role in Twenty-First-Century Maritime Security.” He discusses the growing role of private maritime-security companies in the modern world and situations where they could provide maritime security.\n\nPieter W.G. Zhao is a PhD Researcher and Junior Lecturer at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focusing on history and international relations in the maritime domain. He is also a Nonresident Fellow at the Irregular Warfare Initiative. His doctoral research analyzes the changing dynamics in the 21st-century maritime warfare and security environment from an applied historical perspective, focusing on non-state actors and irregular warfare at sea.\n\nJ. Overton is co-host of the Sea Control podcast and edited the essay collection “Seapower by Other Means: Naval Contributions to National Objectives Beyond Sea Control, Power Projection, and Traditional Service Missions.”"}