This new work presents a comprehensive approach to an age old
disruption of the order of the oceans that was known to ancient
Greece, Persia, the first Indian Empire, the Han Dynasty of China
and the early European maritime powers. Many of the norms
proscribing piratical acts that are codified in contemporary
international law are vestiges of those earlier periods. Yet
contemporary maritime piracy is more complex and intense. The
International Maritime Bureau of the International Chamber of
Commerce reported 439 reports of actual piracy attacks in 2011,
most Somali based, and a higher number of attempts. This book
presents perspectives on the problem by contributors from four
continents, diverse legal cultures, and multiple disciplines. This
volume appraises piracy from the comparative perspectives of those
disciplines and from the standpoint of key participants in the
social processes that are plagued by piracy-mariners, navies, ship
owners and operators, policy makers and lawyers. Decision-making
and operational measures cannot be separated from piracy's origins
and continuing social impact. Thus the contributors bring clarity
to the problem through the lenses of history, development, law,
maritime security, fisheries, economics and ocean commerce.
Maritime piracy initiatives are generating a great number of
operational and institutional counter-measures and the diversity of
stakeholder interests often complicates proposed solutions. Against
that backdrop the contributors examine strategies - the range of
available modalities to address and correct the problem - through
the lenses of naval power, port state control, penal systems and
development. And they appraise law - both national and
international authoritative decision-making - viewing state
practice, international regulations, tribunal judgments, custom and
international conventions from the comparative perspectives of
Africa, India, England, France and the United States. Piracy in
Comparative Perspective is a collaboration of the Centre for
Maritime and Oceanic Law (CDMO) of the University of Nantes
(France) and the Center for Oceans and Coastal Law of the
University of Maine School of Law (United States), prepared under
the direction of Professor Charles H. NORCHI and Dr. Gwenaele
PROUTIERE-MAULION.
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