by Rob de Wijk, David M. Anderson and Steven Haines
Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, vol. 52, no. 1, February–March 2010, pp. 39–54
The New Piracy: The Global Context
Rob de Wijk
The New Piracy: The Local Context
David M. Anderson
The New Piracy: The Legal Context
Steven Haines
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Editor’s note
The sharp escalation in ship hijackings by Somali pirates on one of the world’s most important trade routes, highlighted by the headline-grabbing seizures of the Ukrainian MV Faina, with its cargo of tanks and heavy weapons, in September 2008 and the fully laden Saudi-owned tanker Sirius Star two months later, shows little sign of abating. In November 2009, the European Security Forum at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, co-sponsored by the IISS, addressed the question of ‘Somalia and the Pirates’. These three essays, offering a range of contexts for the new piracy, are shortened versions of three of the papers presented. A fourth, on Somali security issues more generally, appears elsewhere in this issue.
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Rob de Wijk is Director of the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and Professor of International Relations, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
David M. Anderson is Professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He researches and writes on the history and politics of the wider eastern African region. His books include Eroding the Commons: Politics and Ecology in Kenya (2002), Histories of the Hanged: Britain’s Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (2005), and The Khat Controversy (2007). His latest monograph, Uncivil Society: Violence and Politics in Kenya, will be published in 2010.
Steven Haines is head of the Security and Law Programme at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy
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