This project is run as a workshops where academics presented working papers to be commented by colleagues and practitioners. The project consists of a core group of experts. Through a series of workshops the project will develop a broad network of contacts and deepen cooperation between research institutions and policymakers in core group countries. The papers from each workshop will analyse timely topics related to international order at sea and seek to make an important contribution to scholarly work, academic debates and policymaking. The workshop series is chaired by the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies (IFS) in close partnership with the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi; China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies (CFISS) and China Institute for Marine Affairs (CIMA), Beijing; and the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), Alexandria, VA. In total seven workshops were organised in Beijing, Bergen, New Delhi, Oslo, Singapore and Washington D.C. in the period August 2010 to November 2015.