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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Maritime Piracy"”.
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Enemies of Mankind: the Developing Threat of Modern Maritime Piracy and Terrorism
… twentieth century came to a close, the number of maritime pirate attacks began to increase worldwide. These attacks ranged from simple thefts to the wholesale hijackings of large ocean-going vessels and the murder of their crews. While pirates have roamed the seven seas for countless centuries, …
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Ganging up on Jolly Roger in Asia : International cooperation and maritime piracy
… a particular instance of a non-state threat, maritime piracy, and uses it as a probe for understanding the nature of international cooperation vis-a-vis non-state actors. I observe a somewhat surprising trend while collating a database of all instances of international cooperation against …
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The Palingenesis of Maritime Piracy and the Evolution of Contemporary Counter-Piracy Initiatives
… thesis examines the phenomena of contemporary maritime piracy in Southeast Asia and Northeast Africa during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This research is carried out imder a broad theoretical framework that encompasses historical analysis combined with an examination of …
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Maritime Piracy as a Challenge to Maritime Governance: A Critical Analysis of Counter Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
… specifically, towards eradicating the threat of maritime piracy. Incidences of maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is not a recent phenomenon. While not new, the political interest in piracy has grown. Today, maritime piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has become a significant element in the security …
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An Investigation of Maritime Piracy and Its Implications to the Development and Sustainability of the Port Harcourt Seaport, its local communities and the Niger Delta region in Nigeria.
… the last decade, widespread ramifications of maritime piracy occasioned by insurmountable piratical attacks in the Gulf of Guinea region have been evidently seen in the Nigerian territorial waters with hallmarks on strategic areas in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria – the Port Harcourt seaport, …
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An Expected Entropy Reduction (EER) Approach to Target Tracking in Maritime Environment for On-board Camera
Maritime surveillance system installed on-board is crucial in protecting commercial vessels worldwide, which suffer potential losses due to the maritime piracy assault. On-board camera provides a way of monitoring suspicious activities at a low cost. However, the maritime environment poses …
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Crime on the High Seas: What Conditions Are Necessary to Achieve Effective Maritime Governance Regime?
<p>This thesis explores why international maritime governance regimes have inconsistent rates of success. The global community relies on the world’s oceans for food, trade, and resources. Therefore, the regulation of these oceans is necessary to provide adequate passage through its waters and the …
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La pirateria marittima negli stretti di Malacca e Singapore in prospettiva storica e attuale
Maritime piracy is still one of the most interesting manifestations of human activity by reason of the fact that it has, directly or indirectly, a number of points of contact between different problems of social, religious, political, economical and, of course, historical matter. Specifically, …
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Raising the Black Flag : state capacity, geography, international law, and the resurgence of maritime crime
… regarding why some coastal populations turn to maritime crime in domestic and international waters, and others do not. In this work I advocate that generalizable geographic, political, and economic conditions can explain a significant portion of maritime crime. Broadly speaking these conditions …