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Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: The Threat to International Security

Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: The Threat to International Security

Murphy Martin, N.

Paperback

Series: Adelphi

Miscellaneous LanguagesGeneral Political ScienceMilitary Strategy

ISBN10: 0415452341
ISBN13: 9780415452342
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 16 2007
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them?

Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections between organised piracy and wider criminal networks and corruption on land make it an element of a phenomenon that can have a weakening effect on states and a destabilising one on the regions in which it is found. Furthermore, it is also an aspect of a broader problem of disorder at sea that, exacerbated by the increasing pressure on littoral waters from growing numbers of people and organisations seeking to exploit maritime resources, encourages maritime criminality and gives insurgents and terrorists the freedom to operate. In this context, maritime terrorism, though currently only a low-level threat, has the potential to spread and become more effective in the event of political change on land. It is only by addressing the issue of generalised maritime disorder that the problems of piracy and maritime terrorism may be controlled in the long term.

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