Bericht

Piracy, maritime terrorism and naval strategy

Piracy is an old problem which is now again attracting attention, mainly because of the surge of pirate attacks off the coasts of Somalia. In this DIIS Report, Senior Researcher Bjørn Møller demonstrates that closer analysis shows the problem to be of quite modest proportions. The international naval protection of merchant shipping holds out some prospects of containing the problem, but it is most likely to solve itself. If international shipping opts for the route south of Africa, piracy will die out for a lack of targets. Maritime terrorism is, likewise, a problem of very limited proportions. It is often conflated with piracy, but there are significant differences between the two phenomena, the latter being undertaken for selfish reasons, the former for the sake of some higher cause. Whereas it is conceivable that maritime terrorists will gradually transform themselves into pirates, a transformation in the opposite direction is well nigh inconceivable.

ISBN
978-87-7605-304-8
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: DIIS Report ; No. 2009:02

Classification
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Subject
Schifffahrt
Politische Gewalt
Seeräuber
Welt

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Møller, Bjørn
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
(where)
Copenhagen
(when)
2009

Handle
Last update
10.03.2002, 4:44 AM CET

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Object type

  • Bericht

Associated

  • Møller, Bjørn
  • Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Time of origin

  • 2009

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