Maritime Terrorism and Piracy in the Indian Ocean Region
Unregulated or lesser regulated maritime spaces are ideal theatres of operation and mediums of transportation for terrorists, insurgents and pirates. For more than a decade, the Indian Ocean waters adjoining Somalia have been a particular locus of such activities, with pirates hijacking vessels, and Al Qaeda and Al Shabab elements travelling between the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, operating lucrative businesses and even staging deadly operations at sea. However, these operations and threats remain, by and large, understudied. Responses to the two threats have varied, highlighting the lack of cohesive regional and global institutions with the mandate and the capacity to address them. Those scholarly deliberations on Indian Ocean maritime security focus on piracy and armed robbery at sea, while their terrorist/insurgent counterparts have eluded sustained scrutiny. This volume helps in closing that gap by looking at both from the field in Somalia and Yemen, within broader frameworks of regional maritime security and port-state control, and international maritime law and the ongoing search for maritime resources. The European, African and Middle Eastern case studies add salience to the regional and international complexity surrounding maritime security off the Horn of Africa. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region.
Awet T. Weldemichael is Queens National Scholar in African History at Queens University, Canada. He is currently researching contemporary Somalia and its adjoining waters.
Patricia Schneider is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany (www.ifsh.de) and teaches in the Peace and Security Studies program. She is an expert on maritime security and terrorism and co-edits the quarterly journal Sicherheit und Frieden Security and Peace.
Andrew C. Winner is a Professor of Strategic Studies in the Strategic Research Department at the US Naval War College, Rhode Island, USA. He is the co-chair of the Indian Ocean Regional Studies Group.
Maritime Terrorism and Piracy in the Indian Ocean Region
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Awet T. Weldemichael, Patricia Schneider and Andrew C. Winner
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Contents
Andrew C. Winner, Patricia Schneider and Awet T. Weldemichael
Awet T. Weldemichael
Annina Cristina Brgin
Patricia Schneider
Stig Jarle Hansen
Martin N. Murphy
Sam Bateman
Douglas Guilfoyle
The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Editorial: Maritime terrorism and piracy in the Indian Ocean Region
Andrew C. Winner, Patricia Schneider and Awet T. Weldemichael
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 107109
Chapter 2
Maritime corporate terrorism and its consequences in the western Indian Ocean: illegal fishing, waste dumping and piracy in twenty-first-century Somalia
Awet T. Weldemichael
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 110126
Chapter 3
Spanish maritime security governance in the Indian Ocean Region
Annina Cristina Brgin
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 127141
Chapter 4
German maritime security governance: a perspective on the Indian Ocean Region
Patricia Schneider
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 142164
Chapter 5
Yemeni security-political dynamics and maritime security in the Indian Ocean Region
Stig Jarle Hansen
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 165172
Chapter 6
The abundant sea: prospects for maritime non-state violence in the Indian Ocean
Martin N. Murphy
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 173187
Chapter 7
Maritime security and port state control in the Indian Ocean Region
Sam Bateman
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 188201
Chapter 8
International law and counter-piracy in the Indian Ocean
Douglas Guilfoyle
Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, volume 8, issue 2 (December 2012) pp. 202218
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Sam Bateman is a Professorial Fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Safety, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Annina Cristina Brgin is based at the Institute of European Studies, University of Corua, Spain.
Douglas Guilfoyle is Reader in Law in the Faculty of Laws, at University College London, UK.
Stig Jarle Hansen is an Associate Professor at the University of Life Sciences, s, Norway.
Martin N. Murphy is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, a Research Fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, and has taught in the Security Studies programme at Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA.
Patricia Schneider is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany (www.ifsh.de) and teaches in the Peace and Security Studies program. She is an expert on maritime security and terrorism and co-edits the quarterly journal