Piracy at Sea

1. Front Matter

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2. The Malmö Declaration: Calling for a Multi-Sectoral Response to Piracy

   • Maximo Q. Mejia Jr., Chie Kojima, Mark Sawyer

   Pages 1-15

3. International Conference on Piracy at Sea: Keynote Address

   • Efthimios E. Mitropoulos

   Pages 17-21

4. Piracy: Armed Robbery, Kidnapping, Torture and Murder at Sea

   • Torben C. Skaanild

   Pages 23-29

5. Human Rights in Counter-Piracy Operations: No Legal Vacuum but Legal Uncertainty

   • Anna Petrig

   Pages 31-45

6. The Use of ‘Ship-Riders’ to Assert Jurisdiction Over Piracy and Armed Robbery Off Somalia: Is the Gulf of Aden the Caribbean?

   • Efthymios Papastavridis

   Pages 47-65

7. The Law Enforcement Approach to Sea Piracy: Overcoming Challenges to Effective Investigation and Prosecution of Somali Pirates

   • Henri Fouché

   Pages 67-79

8. Japanese Anti-Piracy Law: Protection of Flagged-Out Ships

   • Kentaro Furuya

   Pages 81-102

9. The Law and Economics of Piracy at Sea

   • Caitlin Stapleton Kaprove

   Pages 103-123

10. An Overview of the Economic Implications of Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships in Nigeria

    • John A. Wajilda

    Pages 125-135

11. China’s Efforts to Fight Piracy at Sea

    • Zhen Lin

    Pages 137-155

12. Warships Alone Will Not Curb Piracy Off the Somali Coast: Lessons from Puntland, State of Somalia

    • Ahmed Khalif Bile

    Pages 157-175

13. The North American Maritime Security Initiative (NAMSI)

    • Ricardo Eliseo Valdés Cerda

    Pages 177-188

14. Economic, Political, and Social Implications of Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: Nigeria as a Case Study

    • Yusuf Mohammad Bala

    Pages 189-202

15. Piracy and Organised Crime at Sea: Following the Money Trail

    • Marelize Schoeman, Benjamin Häefele

    Pages 203-215

16. How to Thwart Success in Piracy: Core Strategies of Security

    • Joan P. Mileski, Maximo Q. Mejia Jr., Arielle D. Carchidi

    Pages 217-240

17. Risk Modelling of Non-Lethal Response to Maritime Piracy and Estimating Its Effect

    • George Ad Psarros, Ronald Kessel, Chris Strode, Rolf Skjong

    Pages 241-260

18. Somali Piracy: Understanding the Criminal Business Model

    • George Kiourktsoglou, Alec D. Coutroubis

    Pages 261-283

19. MV Renuar: 133 Days of Fear, Helplessness, and Hopelessness

    • Calixto Caniete

    Pages 285-288

20. The Human Cost of Somali Piracy

    • Kaija Hurlburt

    Pages 289-310

​Over more than three decades starting in the 1990s, thousands of robberies, acts of piracy, and other violent attacks against merchant vessels have been reported in many of the world’s waters. The grave danger of piracy poses a direct threat not only to the security and efficiency of marine transportation, but more seriously, to the lives of the men and woman carrying out this important function. This book collates ideas brought up by seafarers, shipowners, industry practitioners, government officials, academics, and researchers exchanged views and insights on the complex web of underlying factors behind the phenomenon of piracy. Piracy at Sea brings together a wide spectrum of maritime stakeholders, who present different aspects of the problem in an open manner and share their thoughts on how to deal with a truly complex situation. It encapsulates this collective wisdom in a publication that can serve as an easy reference for practitioners as well as researchers, and hopefully contribute to more concrete action.​

• Somalia
• maritime crime
• maritime piracy
• maritime policy
• maritime security

• Maritime Industry Authority, Manila, Philippines

  Maximo Q. Mejia, Jr.

• Musashino University Faculty of Political Science & Economics, Tokyo, Japan

  Chie Kojima

• Richmond Hill, USA

  Mark Sawyer

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