Format:
1 online resource (276 pages)
ISBN:
9781935352204
Series Statement:
Newport Paper v.35
Content:
This monograph is intended as a contribution to both scholarship and professional naval thinking; it is an academic and comparative examination of twelve selected case studies from maritime history used to illuminate a range of concepts and uses of piracy suppression. The twelve case studies provide the basis for the conclusions, an approach that provides a more thorough understanding of the uses and limitations of naval antipiracy operations in the context of new maritime technologies and within a wider range of modern national policy goals than might otherwise be achievable. Above all, this collection provides a sound basis for comparative analysis of varying historical experiences that can stimulate new and original thinking about a basic but often overlooked naval duty.
Content:
Cover -- Cover Caption -- Title Page -- Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One-A Modern History of the International Legal Definition of Piracy -- Part One-Piracy in East Asia and the South China Sea -- Map-East Asia and the South China Sea -- Chapter Two-Piracy on the South China Coast through Modern Times -- Chapter Three-The Taiping Rebellion, Piracy, and the Arrow War -- Chapter Four-Selamat Datang, Kapitan: Post-World War II Piracy in the South China Sea -- Chapter Five-The Political Economy of Piracy in the South China Sea -- Part Two-Piracy in South and Southeast Asia -- Map-South and Southeast Asia -- Chapter Six-The Looting and Rape of Vietnamese Boat People -- Chapter Seven-Piracy and Armed Robbery in the Malacca Strait: A Problem Solved? -- Chapter Eight-Piracy in Bangladesh: What Lies Beneath? -- Chapter Nine-Confronting Maritime Crime in Southeast Asian Waters: Reexamining "Piracy" in the Twenty-first Century -- Part Three-Piracy in Africa -- Map-Africa -- Chapter Ten-President Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates -- Chapter Eleven-The Limits of Naval Power: The Merchant Brig Three Sisters, Riff Pirates, and British Battleships -- Chapter Twelve-Guns, Oil, and "Cake": Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea -- Chapter Thirteen-Fish, Family, and Profit: Piracy and the Horn of Africa -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index -- The Newport Papers.
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Language:
English
