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Author Elleman, Bruce A

Title Piracy and Maritime Crime : Historical and Modern Case Studies
Published Washington, D.C. : United States Dept. of Defense, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages)
Series Newport Paper ; v. 35
Newport paper.
Contents Cover; Cover Caption; Title Page; Front Matter; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One-A Modern History of the International Legal Definition of Piracy; Part One-Piracy in East Asia and the South China Sea; Map-East Asia and the South China Sea; Chapter Two-Piracy on the South China Coast through Modern Times; Chapter Three-The Taiping Rebellion, Piracy, and the Arrow War; Chapter Four-Selamat Datang, Kapitan: Post-World War II Piracy in the South China Sea; Chapter Five-The Political Economy of Piracy in the South China Sea; Part Two-Piracy in South and Southeast Asia
Map-South and Southeast AsiaChapter Six-The Looting and Rape of Vietnamese Boat People; Chapter Seven-Piracy and Armed Robbery in the Malacca Strait: A Problem Solved?; Chapter Eight-Piracy in Bangladesh: What Lies Beneath?; Chapter Nine-Confronting Maritime Crime in Southeast Asian Waters: Reexamining "Piracy" in the Twenty-first Century; Part Three-Piracy in Africa; Map-Africa; Chapter Ten-President Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates; Chapter Eleven-The Limits of Naval Power: The Merchant Brig Three Sisters, Riff Pirates, and British Battleships
Chapter Twelve-Guns, Oil, and "Cake": Maritime Security in the Gulf of GuineaChapter Thirteen-Fish, Family, and Profit: Piracy and the Horn of Africa; Conclusions; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index; The Newport Papers
Summary This monograph is intended as a contribution to both scholarship and professional naval thinking; it is an academic and comparative examination of twelve selected case studies from maritime history used to illuminate a range of concepts and uses of piracy suppression. The twelve case studies provide the basis for the conclusions, an approach that provides a more thorough understanding of the uses and limitations of naval antipiracy operations in the context of new maritime technologies and within a wider range of modern national policy goals than might otherwise be achievable. Above all, this
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Piracy -- Prevention -- Case studies
Maritime terrorism -- Prevention -- Case studies
Piracy -- East Asia
Piracy -- South China Sea
Piracy -- South Asia
Piracy -- Southeast Asia
Piracy -- Africa
Piracy
Piracy -- Prevention
Africa
East Asia
South Asia
South China Sea
Southeast Asia
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Forbes, Andrew
Rosenberg, David
ISBN 9781935352204
1935352202