Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and
increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international
system. Much attention has focused on Somalia, but piracy is a
problem worldwide. Recent coordination efforts among states in
South East Asia appear to have helped in the area, but elsewhere
piracy has expanded. Interestingly, international law has long
recognized piracy as a crime and provided tools for universal
suppression, yet piracy persists.
In this book, a handpicked group of leading experts in the field
of International Relations use maritime piracy as a means to expose
the incongruities in our understanding of global governance. Using
broadly constructivist approaches to understand international
actors responses to the challenges created by maritime piracy, the
contributors question a number of myths and misconceptions around
piracy and analyze the various ways that international law and
organizations channel actors understandings of maritime piracy and
their efforts to respond to it. In doing so, they expose some shaky
foundations for IR theorists: how do we conceive of governance and
legitimacy when they are delinked from the territorial aspect of
the modern nation-state? What happens to prospects for cooperation
when we get to the nitty-gritty questions of practice related to
paying for trials, imprisoning and maintaining captured pirates,
bearing the burden of policing sea-lanes, or even determining what
constitutes a pirate? Does anyone have a monopoly on the legitimate
use of force at sea, and how is that legitimacy constructed?
Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance offers
an improved theoretical understanding of the response of the
international community to maritime piracy and broadens our
understanding of the complex and sometimes countervailing
motivations of all the actors involved, from international
organizations and states down to the pirates themselves.
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