Contemporary piracy and maritime terrorism the threat to international security
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 i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK
The International Institute for Strategic Studies
2007
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| Series: | Adelphi papers
number 388 |
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| Summary: | 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 numbe |
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| Physical Description: | 108 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780415452342 |
| ISSN: | 0567-932X |