Category Archives: Piracy

Curbing the excesses of maritime piracy in Africa

Curbing the excesses of maritime piracy in Africa Legal Monitor Worldwide 5 August 2014, English, © 2014 Global Data Point. All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company It may… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Busting up Somali pirate attacks one ship at a time

Busting up Somali pirate attacks one ship at a time The Christian Science Monitor By Mike Pflanz Correspondent 14 July 2014 When they speed up to a lumbering ship, the main… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Private Anti-Piracy Navies: How Warships for Hire are Changing Maritime Security

Private Anti-Piracy Navies: How Warships for Hire are Changing Maritime Security August 1, 2014 Emil Maine 7 Comments This is an article in our first “Non Navies” Series. By Emil Maine… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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On the Effectiveness of Private Security Guards on Board Merchant Ships off the Coast of Somalia – Where is the Piracy? What are the Legal Ramifications?

On the Effectiveness of Private Security Guards on Board Merchant Ships off the Coast of Somalia – Where is the Piracy? What are the Legal Ramifications? Summer, 2014 North Carolina Journal… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Anti-pirate security staff all at sea after major firm suddenly goes bust

Exclusive: Anti-pirate security staff all at sea after major firm suddenly goes bust  Around 100 armed security staff hired to protect ships and tankers from pirates have been left scattered at… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Mercenaries in Somalia: A Neomedieval Tale

Mercenaries in Somalia: A Neomedieval Tale.” The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order (2014): 131. You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to register  

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Maritime Security: Ongoing U.S. Counterpiracy Efforts Would Benefit From Agency Assessments

Maritime Security: Ongoing U.S. Counterpiracy Efforts Would Benefit From Agency Assessments GAO-14-422: Published: Jun 19, 2014. Publicly Released: Jun 23, 2014. … Of the various implemented practices, officials from the six… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Hijacking of Thai oil tanker sparks call for cargo ships to carry weapons

Hijacking of Thai oil tanker sparks call for cargo ships to carry weapons BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific 9 June 2014 04:06, Text of report by Thai newspaper Bangkok Post website on… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Putting security guards in their place

Putting security guards in their place 29 Mar 2014 All of the GAC’s Sea Crime Defence System technologies can be used in combination. Security guards have been hailed as one of… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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PROMISING PRIVATEERS? Understanding the Constraints of Contemporary Private Security at Sea

PROMISING PRIVATEERS? Understanding the Constraints of Contemporary Private Security at Sea Spearin, Christopher. Naval War College Review67.2 (Spring 2014): 97-116. Abstract (summary) For the secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon,… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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