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International Journal of Political Science and Development Vol. 2(7), pp. 158 –163, August, 2014 DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2014.036 ISSN: 2360-784X Review
Interdisciplinary
Approach and Hybrid Policy to Maritime Piracy
Maritime piracy
recurring over the last decades poses significant risk to human
life, safety of shipping, and international security. Several
disciplines, particularly International Relations, economics, legal
studies, development studies, and gender studies seek to explain
this form of transnational crime. As an empirical case study the
paper aims to explore economic and social approaches that were taken
into account when a maritime nation of Georgia tackled the issue of
the Georgian and Turkish seafarers taken hostage in 2010 by the
Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden/Horn of Africa (GOA/HOA) region.
This is a unique case because similar to other maritime nations
facing piracy, but unlike other maritime powers, response of the
state, having no experience of dealing with piracy was successful.
Although, the most tangible measures against piracy is considered
the use of force in line with the realist tenets, this paper has
found that because a single discipline is unable to comprehend the
nature of modern piracy, interdisciplinary theoretical premises and
a hybrid policy approach to maritime piracy can constitute
significant solution for protection of ships, safeguarding the life
at sea, compliance with the recommended measures and addressing the
root causes.
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