Description |
1 online resource (276 pages) |
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Newport Paper ; v. 35 |
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Newport paper.
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Piracy -- Prevention -- Case studies
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Maritime terrorism -- Prevention -- Case studies
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Piracy -- East Asia
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Piracy -- South China Sea
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Piracy -- South Asia
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Piracy -- Southeast Asia
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Piracy -- Africa
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Piracy
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Piracy -- Prevention
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Africa
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East Asia
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South Asia
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South China Sea
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Southeast Asia
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Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Forbes, Andrew
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Rosenberg, David
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ISBN |
9781935352204 |
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1935352202 |
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