Thoughts on the recent USN rescue of Iranian fishermen: To be sure, this version of the rescue represents public relations spin, but soft power often amounts to framing narrative for the purposes of public relations. The Iranians’ claim that Iran frees pirate hostages all the...
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Barack Obama is a Somali pirate. See also.
My WPR column this week: That didn't seem apparent two years ago, when Dr. Yoav Gortzak and I argued (.pdf) that increasing the density of naval forces off the Horn of.
This is quite bad: At approximately 1 a.m. EST today, while negotiations were ongoing to secure the release of four American hostages, U.S. forces responded to gunfire aboard the pirated vessel (S/V) Quest. As they responded to the gunfire, reaching and boarding the Quest, the...
My column on piracy, metrics, and grand strategy is up at World Politics Review: Most notably, the report highlighted the lack of any good cost-benefit analysis of the anti-piracy effort..
Later this year, state parties will get together to revisit the Statute for the International Criminal Court. Definitely on the agenda is clarifying the crime of aggression, which was left.
Daniel Heller-Roazen's The Enemy of All studies the genealogy of the term "pirate," and the impact that the term has had on the development of Western international law and the laws of war. Beginning with Cicero, he focuses on the way in which legal theorists...
I have a review of Martin Murphy's Small Boats, Weak States, Dirty Money up at ID. Long story short, it's the best single volume introduction to modern piracy and maritime.
David Axe has managed to secure a embed with anti-piracy forces off the coast of Somalia, but needs help getting where he needs to be. Drop a nickel in the.
This dude's job kind of sucks. If you think you face an uphill challenge at work today, spare a thought for Farah Ahmed Omar, the man in charge of Somalia's navy. He has neither boats nor equipment and admits he has not been to sea...
It turns out that the T-72s carried by the MV Faina (the Ukranian vessels that was seized and held by pirates for several months) weren't destined for Kenya after all:But.
The Patterson School's new summer reading list is out. I've recently finished the Kilcullen and the Bacevich, both of which are quite good; reviews pending. Also, David Wescott of Business.