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A collection of essays providing a comprehensive assessment of the legal and policy approaches to maritime counter-piracy adopted by the EU and other international actors over the last few years.
List of contents
Introduction
Panos Koutrakos and Achilles Skordas
Part I: Piracy and International Norms
1 The Piracy Provisions of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea— Fit for Purpose?
Robin Churchill
2 Piracy and Terrorism
Douglas Guilfoyle
3 Piracy and the Use of Force
Alexander Proelss
4 Counter-piracy Operations and the Limits of International Humanitarian Law
Thilo Marauhn
Part II: National, Regional and International Approaches
5 The European Union’s Comprehensive Approach to Combating Piracy at Sea: Legal Aspects
Ricardo Gosalbo-Bono and Sonja Boelaert
6 Transfer Agreements for Pirates Concluded by the EU—a Case Study on the Human Rights Accountability of the Common Security and Defence Policy
Daniel Thym
7 Countering Piracy off the Coast of Somalia: A NATO Perspective
Peter M Olson
8 International Law and US Responses to Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
Gabriel Swiney
9 Piracy and the UK
Andrew Murdoch
10 Fighting Piracy—The German Perspective
Doris König and Tim René Salomon
11 Piracy and the East African Region
Edwin Egede
12 Alternative Approaches to Piracy and Armed Robbery in Southeast Asian Waters and off the Horn of Africa: A Comparative Perspective
David M Ong
Part III: Rethinking the Main Tenets of Counter-piracy Approaches
13 The Dark Side of Counter-piracy Policies
Achilles Skordas
14 Piracy in Global Law and Global Governance
Jan Klabbers
15 Piracy and the Development of International Law
Malcolm D Evans and Sofi a Galani
About the author
Panos Koutrakos is Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law at City, University London.Achilles Skordas is Professor of International Law at the University of Bristol.
Summary
This collection of essays provides a comprehensive assessment of the legal and policy approaches to maritime anti-piracy adopted by the EU and other international actors over the last few years.
Additional text
The introduction to this collection (...) indicates that its aim is to "provide a comprehensive assessment of the legal and policy issues pertaining to the maritime counter-piracy approaches" over the last few years. (...) the volume more particularly seeks to re-evaluate the practices and policies adopted internationally, and particularly in the European Union (EU).
