Cover; Maritime Piracy; copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword by the series editors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Piracy: the nature of the problem; 2. History; 3. The nuts and bolts of twenty-first century maritime governance relevant to combating piracy; 4. Evolving norms and conventions; 5. Current debates; 6. Key gaps and criticisms; 7. Emerging trends and future directions; Notes; Select bibliography; Index
Summary
Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry's rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, incomplete and complicating structures and norms of governance, together with advances in technology, enable a lucrative business model for pirates, as they effectively operate with impunity and claim increasing ransoms. Beginning with an overview and historical development of piracy and the relevant m
