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- Title
Responding to Maritime Piracy: The Regional Approach.
- Authors
GOTTLIEB, YARON
- Abstract
This article examines three modalities that have been employed to address maritime piracy in different regions: the South-East Asia and the Caribbean model; the Somali model; and the Gulf of Guinea model. It argues that although maritime piracy has had severe international implications (for example, to international commerce), in essence it has remained a local or, at most, regional problem, rather than a transnational or global criminal activity. Consequently, the counter-piracy initiatives should focus on a tailored regional approach, supplemented, when needed, by the support of the international community. This conclusion also arises from the comparison between the various regional modalities applied so far despite certain differences. Notably with regard to the way in which the regional responses have been formed (bottom-up, top-down, or a combination of both), there is one common characteristic to all modalities: the prominent role given to regional initiatives and the secondary, complementary role, assumed by the international community.
- Subjects
MARITIME piracy -- Law &; legislation; PIRACY prevention (Maritime); UNITED Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982); INTERNATIONAL cooperation
- Publication
University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal, 2016, Vol 28, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1061-3331
- Publication type
Article