Christian Bueger, Cardiff University 2016 marks the beginning of the transition of the counter-piracy response in the Horn of Africa. Many states have already significantly reduced their involv...
https://piracy-studies.org/what-future-for-the-contact-group-on-somali-piracy-options-for-reform-2/
Piracy-studies.org was launched in 2010. It was at the heydays of the Somali piracy crisis. Creating the portal and blog was motivated by the observation that great scholarship on piracy was carr...
Edwin Egede, Cardiff University The African Charter on Maritime Security, Safety and Development in Africa (the Lomé Charter) is the outcome of the African Union Extraordinary Summit held in Lom...
https://piracy-studies.org/africas-lome-charter-on-maritime-security-what-are-the-next-steps/
Zamzam Tatu, M&C Saatchi World Services, Kenya Following primary research recently conducted at Montagne Posse Prison, Seychelles, little has changed behind the drivers to commit maritime crime. ...
https://piracy-studies.org/why-be-a-pirate-understanding-motivations-for-piracy/
Christian Bueger, Cardiff University In July 2017 the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), the main global governance body steering the international campaign to address Soma...
https://piracy-studies.org/the-contact-group-at-20-challenges-for-the-upcoming-plenary/
Peter Sutch, Cardiff University The importance and complexity of our political, economic and environmental relationship to the sea makes the evolution of a contemporary normative vision of the ma...
https://piracy-studies.org/towards-blue-justice-common-heritage-and-common-interest-in-the-maritime/
Christian Bueger & Robert McCabe, Cardiff University The hijacking of an oil tanker on its way to Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, has sparked international attention. For almost five years nothin...
https://piracy-studies.org/somali-sea-hijack-is-a-warning-signal-the-pirates-are-down-but-not-out/
Barry J Ryan, Keele University We should be embarrassed that so little has been written about the politics of the sea in the field of International Relations (IR). Traditionally limited to the st...
https://piracy-studies.org/international-relations-must-challenge-the-freedom-of-security-at-sea/
Ulrik Trolle Smed and Anders Wivel, University of Copenhagen The piracy problem in East Africa gained international attention in particular from 2005 and onwards. In this international setting, D...
https://piracy-studies.org/how-do-small-states-influence-international-counterpiracy-policy/
Christian Bueger, Cardiff University Last week operation ‘Ocean Shield’ terminated ending NATO’s six year mission to protect the sea lanes of Western Indian Ocean. Will the world miss the o...
https://piracy-studies.org/natos-fight-against-somali-pirates-the-end-of-an-unsung-success-story/