Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism (Adelphi Paper)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge; IISS
Published: August 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780415452342
Subjects: Maritime / nautical trades; Organized crime; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Criminology; Economic Conditions; Hijacking of ships; Piracy; Terrorism
Description: Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them? Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land make it an element of a phenomenon that can have a weakening effect on states and a destabilising one on the regions in which it is found. Furthermore, it is also an aspect of a broader problem of disorder at sea that, exacerbated by the increasing pressure on littoral waters from growing numbers of people and organisations seeking to exploit maritime resources, encourages maritime criminality and gives insurgents and terrorists the freedom to operate. In this context, maritime terrorism, though currently only a low-level threat, has the potential to spread and become more effective n the event of political change on land. It is only by addressing the issue of generalised maritime disorder that the problems of piracy and maritime terrorism may be controlled in the long term.