Piracy and Maritime Crime (Historical and Modern Case Studies)
Year: 2010 Language: english Author: Elleman B. A., Forbes A., Rosenberg D. Genre: Other Publisher: Military Bookshop Edition: 1 ISBN: 978-1780396668 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 276 Description: Piracy is a basic and fundamental concern for all navies.1 From almost the beginning of state-sponsored navies, piracy suppression has been one of their major responsibilities—when Julius Caesar was captured by pirates in 76 BCE, the first thing he did after paying the pirates’ ransom and being released was to fit “out a squadron of ships to take his revenge.”2 Despite piracy’s importance and the continued frequency of piratical attacks, however, relatively few scholarly works have been written analyzing cases of modern piracy and piracy suppression in terms of varying strategic, policy, and operational decisions. This edited collection of case studies attempts to fill this gap. There have been a number of important historical studies that have dealt with the subjects of piracy and piracy suppression. Books written from the point of view of those wishing to end piracy have tended to focus on legal issues, including the rights of victims, the procedures and decisions of Admiralty courts in punishing pirates, and the capture of piracy ships as prizes. Others have looked at the existence of piracy in terms of one particular place or time period, with the Barbary Coast and the Caribbean Sea claiming disproportionate shares of attention. Pirates are often romanticized; Forbes magazine has recently listed history’s top-earning pirates, including Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy at US$120 million (2008 dollars), Sir Francis Drake at US$115 million, and Thomas Tew at US$103 million. More famous pirates, like Edward Teach (“Blackbeard”), came in far down the list, at tenth place, with only US$12.5 million.3
Full Table of Contents
CONTENTS Foreword — Bruce A. Elleman ...................................................... v Introduction — Bruce A. Elleman, Andrew Forbes, & David Rosenberg ....... 1 CHAPTER ONE A Modern History of the International Legal Definition of Piracy by Penny Campbell ...................................................................... 19 PART ONE: PIRACY IN EAST ASIA AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA CHAPTER TWO Piracy on the South China Coast through Modern Times by Robert J. Antony ..................................................................... 35 CHAPTER THREE The Taiping Rebellion, Piracy, and the Arrow War by Bruce A. Elleman .................................................................... 51 CHAPTER FOUR Selamat Datang, Kapitan: Post–World War II Piracy in the South China Sea by Charles W. Koburger, Jr. .......................................................... 65 CHAPTER FIVE The Political Economy of Piracy in the South China Sea by David Rosenberg ..................................................................... 79 PART TWO: PIRACY IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA CHAPTER SIX The Looting and Rape of Vietnamese Boat People by Bruce A. Elleman ..................................................................... 97 CHAPTER SEVEN Piracy and Armed Robbery in the Malacca Strait: A Problem Solved? by Catherine Zara Raymond ....................................................... 109 CHAPTER EIGHT Piracy in Bangladesh: What Lies Beneath? by Samuel Pyeatt Menefee .......................................................... 121 CHAPTER NINE Confronting Maritime Crime in Southeast Asian Waters: Reexamining "Piracy" in the Twenty-first Century by Sam Bateman ......................................................................... 137 PART THREE: PIRACY IN AFRICA CHAPTER TEN President Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates by Robert F. Turner ................................................................... 157 CHAPTER ELEVEN The Limits of Naval Power: The Merchant Brig Three Sisters, Riff Pirates, and British Battleships by Andrew Lambert .................................................................... 173 CHAPTER TWELVE Guns, Oil, and "Cake": Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea by Arild Nodland ........................................................................ 191 CHAPTER THIRTEEN Fish, Family, and Profit: Piracy and the Horn of Africa by Gary E. Weir .......................................................................... 207 Conclusions — Bruce A. Elleman, Andrew Forbes, & David Rosenberg .......... 223 Bibliography ................................................................................ 243 About the Contributors .................................................................. 249 Index .......................................................................................... 253 The Newport Papers ......................................................................... 271
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Piracy and Maritime Crime (Historical and Modern Case Studies)
Language: english
Author: Elleman B. A., Forbes A., Rosenberg D.
Genre: Other
Publisher: Military Bookshop
Edition: 1
ISBN: 978-1780396668
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 276
Description: Piracy is a basic and fundamental concern for all navies.1 From almost the beginning of state-sponsored navies, piracy suppression has been one of their major responsibilities—when Julius Caesar was captured by pirates in 76 BCE, the first thing he did after paying the pirates’ ransom and being released was to fit “out a squadron of ships to take his revenge.”2 Despite piracy’s importance and the continued frequency of piratical attacks, however, relatively few scholarly works have been written analyzing cases of modern piracy and piracy suppression in terms of varying strategic, policy, and operational decisions. This edited collection of case studies attempts to fill this gap.
There have been a number of important historical studies that have dealt with the subjects of piracy and piracy suppression. Books written from the point of view of those wishing to end piracy have tended to focus on legal issues, including the rights of victims, the procedures and decisions of Admiralty courts in punishing pirates, and the capture of piracy ships as prizes. Others have looked at the existence of piracy in terms of one particular place or time period, with the Barbary Coast and the Caribbean Sea claiming disproportionate shares of attention. Pirates are often romanticized; Forbes magazine has recently listed history’s top-earning pirates, including Samuel “Black Sam” Bellamy at US$120 million (2008 dollars), Sir Francis Drake at US$115 million, and Thomas Tew at US$103 million. More famous pirates, like Edward Teach (“Blackbeard”), came in far down the list, at tenth place, with only US$12.5 million.3
Full Table of Contents
CONTENTSForeword — Bruce A. Elleman ...................................................... v
Introduction — Bruce A. Elleman, Andrew Forbes, & David Rosenberg ....... 1
CHAPTER ONE
A Modern History of the International Legal Definition of Piracy
by Penny Campbell ...................................................................... 19
PART ONE: PIRACY IN EAST ASIA AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
CHAPTER TWO
Piracy on the South China Coast through Modern Times
by Robert J. Antony ..................................................................... 35
CHAPTER THREE
The Taiping Rebellion, Piracy, and the Arrow War
by Bruce A. Elleman .................................................................... 51
CHAPTER FOUR
Selamat Datang, Kapitan: Post–World War II Piracy in the South China Sea
by Charles W. Koburger, Jr. .......................................................... 65
CHAPTER FIVE
The Political Economy of Piracy in the South China Sea
by David Rosenberg ..................................................................... 79
PART TWO: PIRACY IN SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
CHAPTER SIX
The Looting and Rape of Vietnamese Boat People
by Bruce A. Elleman ..................................................................... 97
CHAPTER SEVEN
Piracy and Armed Robbery in the Malacca Strait: A Problem Solved?
by Catherine Zara Raymond ....................................................... 109
CHAPTER EIGHT
Piracy in Bangladesh: What Lies Beneath?
by Samuel Pyeatt Menefee .......................................................... 121
CHAPTER NINE
Confronting Maritime Crime in Southeast Asian Waters: Reexamining "Piracy" in the Twenty-first Century
by Sam Bateman ......................................................................... 137
PART THREE: PIRACY IN AFRICA
CHAPTER TEN
President Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates
by Robert F. Turner ................................................................... 157
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Limits of Naval Power: The Merchant Brig Three Sisters, Riff Pirates, and British Battleships
by Andrew Lambert .................................................................... 173
CHAPTER TWELVE
Guns, Oil, and "Cake": Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea
by Arild Nodland ........................................................................ 191
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Fish, Family, and Profit: Piracy and the Horn of Africa
by Gary E. Weir .......................................................................... 207
Conclusions — Bruce A. Elleman, Andrew Forbes, & David Rosenberg .......... 223
Bibliography ................................................................................ 243
About the Contributors .................................................................. 249
Index .......................................................................................... 253
The Newport Papers ......................................................................... 271
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