Maritime Terrorism and Piracy in the Indian Ocean Region

The volume synthesizes case studies of maritime security challenges in the Indian Ocean and national responses to them, offers an overarching framework of non-state actors and maritime security, and analyses international legal and regulatory responses to security concerns in the Indian Ocean. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Maritime Terrorism and Piracy in the Indian Ocean Region 2. Maritime corporate terrorism and its consequences in the western Indian Ocean: illegal fishing, waste dumping and piracy in 21st Century Somalia 3. Spanish maritime security governance in the Indian Ocean Region 4. German maritime security governance: a perspective on the Indian Ocean Region 5. Yemeni security-political dynamics and maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region 6. The abundant sea: prospects for maritime non-state violence in the Indian Ocean 7. Maritime security and port state control in the Indian Ocean Region 8. International law and counter-piracy in the Indian Ocean

About the author

Awet T. Weldemichael is Queen's National Scholar in African History at Queen's University, Canada. He is currently researching contemporary Somalia and its adjoining waters.
Patricia Schneider is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and teaches in the Peace and Security Studies program at the University of Hamburg, Germany. She is an expert on maritime security and terrorism and co-edits the quarterly journal Sicherheit und Frieden - Security and Peace.

Product details

• Authors: Awet (Queen''''s University Weldemichael
• Assisted by: Patricia Schneider (Editor), Schneider Patricia (Editor), Awet Weldemichael (Editor), Andrew Winner (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2015
• EAN: 9781138850644
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85064-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Warfare & defence, Terrorism, armed struggle, Organized crime, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Indian Ocean, Peace studies & conflict resolution