Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry’s rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, inc...

In 2011, Somali pirates attacked 237 ships and successfully hijacked 28. Piracy impacts multiple stakeholders, none more so than the seafarers attacked, held hostage, or killed.

As the safety of ships, their crews, and cargo are increasingly put at risk of pirate attack, there has been a related spike in private counter piracy defense teams on board vessels transiting at-risk zones. In an attempt to clarify this emerging industry, we have begun to map the field, examining c...

This paper explores the staggeringly high costs of the crises response rather than the crises prevention approach by looking at the case of Somalia.

Thousands of seafarers have been subjected to gunfire, beatings, confinement, and in some cases torture, in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden. In spite of the violent nature of these crimes, the human cost of piracy is under-reported and misunderstood by the public.

At the end of 2010, around 6 pirates. 1 00 seafarers from more than 18 countries are being held hostage by Piracy clearly affects the world’s largest trade transport industry, but how much is it costing the world? One Earth Future the cost of piracy as part of its (OEF) Foundation has conducted a la...

Maritime piracy continues to afflict the modern world. Basing their operations in places like Somalia, modern pirates have been able to launch attacks on ships traveling some of the world’s most trafficked waterways.