Contemporary Maritime Piracy in Southeast Asia
Subtitle: History, Causes and Remedies
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Published: March 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9789812304070
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Asian studies; Crime & criminology; Maritime history; South East Asia; Current Events - Politics
Description: This book explores contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia, demonstrating the utility of using historical context in developing policy approaches that will address the roots of this resurgent phenomenon. The depth and breadth of historical piracy help highlight causative factors of contemporary piracy, which are immersed in the socio-cultural matrix of maritime-oriented peoples to whom piracy is still a thinkable option. The threats to life and property posed by piracy are relatively low, but significant given the strategic nature of these waterways that link the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and because piracy is emblematic of broader issues of weak state control in the littoral states of the region. Maritime piracy will never be completely eliminated, but with a progressive economic and political agenda aimed at changing the environment from which piracy is emerging, it could once again become the exception rather than the rule. (Back cover.)