Piracy at Sea [electronic resource] / edited by Maximo Q. Mejia, Jr., Chie Kojima, Mark Sawyer.

The Malmö Declaration: Calling for a Multi-sectoral Response to Piracy -- International Conference on Piracy at Sea: Keynote Address -- Piracy: Armed Robbery, Kidnapping, Torture and Murder at Sea -- Human Rights in Counter-piracy Operations: No Legal Vacuum but Legal Uncertainty -- The Use of ‘Ship-riders’ to Assert Jurisdiction over Piracy and Armed Robbery off Somalia: Is the Gulf of Aden the Caribbean? -- The Law Enforcement Approach to Sea Piracy: Overcoming Challenges to Effective Investigation and Prosecution of Somali Pirates -- Japanese Anti-Piracy Law: Protection of Flagged-out Ships -- The Law and Economics of Piracy at Sea -- An Overview of the Economic Implications of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Nigeria -- An Overview of the Economic Implications of Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Nigeria -- Warships Alone Will not Curb Piracy off the Somali Coast: Lessons from Puntland, State of Somalia -- The North American Maritime Security Initiative (NAMSI) -- Economic, Political, and Social Implications of Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea: Nigeria as a Case Study -- Piracy and Organised Crime at Sea: Following the Money Trail -- How to Thwart Success in Piracy: Core Strategies of Security -- Risk Modelling of Non-lethal Response to Maritime Piracy and Estimating its Effect -- Somali Piracy: Understanding the Criminal Business Model -- MV Renuar: 133 Days of Fear, Helplessness, and Hopelessness -- The Human Cost of Somali Piracy.

Over more than three decades starting in the 1990s, thousands of robberies, acts of piracy, and other violent attacks against merchant vessels have been reported in many of the world’s waters. The grave danger of piracy poses a direct threat not only to the security and efficiency of marine transportation, but more seriously, to the lives of the men and woman carrying out this important function. This book collates ideas brought up by seafarers, shipowners, industry practitioners, government officials, academics, and researchers exchanged views and insights on the complex web of underlying factors behind the phenomenon of piracy. Piracy at Sea brings together a wide spectrum of maritime stakeholders, who present different aspects of the problem in an open manner and share their thoughts on how to deal with a truly complex situation. It encapsulates this collective wisdom in a publication that can serve as an easy reference for practitioners as well as researchers, and hopefully contribute to more concrete action.