Piracy at Sea

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mejia, Jr., Maximo Q. (Editor), Kojima, Chie (Editor), Sawyer, Mark (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: WMU Studies in Maritime Affairs, 2
• Subjects: Law.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; International criminal law.; Law of the sea.; Criminology.; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; International Criminal Law.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.

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 transpor...