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Modelling Maritime Piracy: A Spatial Approach [PDF]

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2014
This paper presents a model to generate dynamic patterns of maritime piracy. Model details, outputs and calibration are illustrated. The model presented here is a tool to estimate the number of pirates and their area of action. The Gulf of Aden is considered as a case study, and data on pirate attacks, vessels routes and flows through the Gulf of Aden ...
Elio Marchione, Shane D Johnson, Alan Wilson   +2 more
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A Contemporary Approach to the Oldest International Crime

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, 2017
Maritime piracy began to re-emerge a decade ago, mostly off the coast of Somalia, thereby presenting major economic, security and humanitarian concerns. Prosecuting piracy raises many issues, not in the least because traditional maritime piracy from 200 ...
Michael Scharf, Mistale Taylor
doaj   +1 more source

All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy

Political Geography
Two types of maritime crime, piracy and illegal fishing, are common and pose risks to marine security. Past studies show a correlational link between the two activities, but the causal direction is far from clear. A popular narrative of the event is that
Anup Phayal, Aaron Gold, Curie Maharani, M. L. Palomares, Daniel Pauly, Brandon Prins, Sayed Riyadi   +6 more
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Hostis humani generis: Pirates and global maritime commerce

Research in Globalization
Maritime piracy is a pressing global economic and security challenge, posing significant threats to international shipping and global trade. Contemporary piracy is intrinsically linked to matters of governance and economic marginalization fostered by the
Francis A. Galgano
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Terrorisme maritime et piraterie d’aujourd’hui

EchoGéo, 2021
Apart from times of high intensity conflict, the two main forms of violence at sea are piracy, and maritime terrorism. If the former is perpetrated at private ends, the latter is politically motivated.
Hugues Eudeline
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The EU–India Partnership in the Indo‐Pacific: Scope and Prospects

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Indian perceptions of the EU's Indo‐Pacific Strategy through interviews with government officials and foreign policy influencers. Despite viewing the EU positively as an important economic and normative partner, many Indian respondents were critical regarding how the EU's approach aligns with India's strategic priorities.
Sheetal Sharma, Tobias Theiler
wiley   +1 more source

Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regulating critical technologies: National security and intellectual property

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract In recent years, claims of ‘national security’ have surged internationally to protect various security interests including public health, economic security and cybersecurity. National industrial strategies for building critical technologies challenge the scope of ‘national security’ in international intellectual property (IP) protection ...
Phoebe Li, Atilla Kasap
wiley   +1 more source

“Piracy is a Land-Based Crime”: Analysis of Definition, Drivers, and Governmental Policy

JMSNI (Journal of Maritime Studies and National Integration), 2018
In this paper, the author theoretically analyses piracy drivers rooted on land which may form main obstacles for the resolution of problems at sea. Discussing the claim of Murphy that piracy is a land-based crime, this article expands the focus and ...
Volodymyr Kyrychenko
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Sir and Guys in 20th‐ and 21st‐Century American English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the diachronic development of formal and informal address and reference terms in American English as an effect of democratization using the COHA corpus (1900–2020). In focus are two address/reference terms with especially drastic frequency trends in the timespan investigated: the honorific sir, which declines sharply from ...
Hanna Bruns, Svenja Kranich
wiley   +1 more source