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 in

Many people in the western world maintain the contradictory notions that the pirates of old were romantic social bandits while their modern brethren are brutal

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Piratical attacks have become more frequent, violent, costly and increasingly threaten to undermine order in the international system. Much attention has focuse