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Learning from Piracy: Lessons for Maritime Security Governance

Global Affairs, 2015

Is the decade of large scale piracy off the coast of Somali over? What are the lessons from Somali piracy for maritime security governance? This article revisits the triggers of piracy and argues for the need of being cautious since the current success in curbing piracy might not be sustainable. An analysis of the rise and decline of piracy provides an explanation of why the international measures show success, but document that it is questionable if these will contain piracy in the long run. Studying the decline of Somali piracy reveals the importance of learning some major lessons for re-evaluating the importance and character of maritime security. Future efforts will be necessary to increase the quality and efficiency of maritime security governance.

Sample dissertation on policing maritime piracy

Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, 2014

Among the oldest professions in the world, maritime piracy is one of the most talked about profession. Throughout the history, and ancient times, maritime piracy was widespread and mostly acknowledged. For example, in ancient Roman Empire and times, piracy still existed throughout to Middle and to Modern Ages. Historical literature has showed that it is extremely difficult to curtail or uproot maritime piracy, although efforts have been been put. As a result, maritime piracy has continued to heavily blow international trade. For this reason, piracy has become an international problem that requires cooperation among states. Piracy has economic development effects to different parties such as the ship owners, the affected country, and crew members.

Modern Maritime Piracy as a Security Challenge

Democracy and Security in Southeastern Europe, 2010

With globalization as a central attribute, post-Cold War international relations are characterized by some completely new forms of security threats. Terrorism is the model, but not the only form. The plurality of piracy-related phenomena that is now seen can jeopardize one society or a number of them. This text is a modest attempt to adequately present a modern security challenge that is relatively new to the wider professional community.

2021_Maritime Piracy and its Characterization as a Threat

Revista de Relaciones Internacionales, Estrategia y Seguridad, 2021

Maritime piracy is a threat to maritime trade whose contemporary version has been legally addressed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and International Maritime Organization (IMO) and coercively by the UN and EU. The present article analyzes maritime piracy from the Copenhagen School’s theoretical perspective and its application to the International Chamber of Commerce’s annual reports on piracy, whose information ranges from 1991 to 2019. This analysis indicates two increase periods, characterized by presence, type, arms, violence, and ships under attack

Piracy and Maritime Terrorism; Serious Perils to Sea Security

Global Strategic & Securities Studies Review, 2020

In today's global environment, security concerns are posturing grave and animated challenges towards domestic as well as global stability. Two particular issues, piracy and maritime terrorism, are one of the modern challenges having worldwide bearing on maritime trade and security. The huge and mostly uncontrolled maritime zone permits pirates and terrorists to achieve their ulterior motives. To device effective countermeasures against them, it must be defined whether or not a nexus is forming between pirates and terrorists as the matching physiognomies make it perplexing to divergent them away from each other. The research paper examines the manifestation of piracy and maritime terrorism, the existing national/ international legal framework on the matter and practices adopted worldwide to address the issue. By appraising the legal instruments, copious useful recommendations are presented to enhance their effectiveness in fighting piracy and maritime terrorism from intimidating ...