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Contemporary Piracy And Maritime Terrorism: Towards An Effective International Legal Response, David L. Scott
Contemporary Piracy And Maritime Terrorism: Towards An Effective International Legal Response, David L. Scott
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Piracy at sea has been a threat which has plagued the mariner since the earliest trading vessels took to the sea more than two thousand years ago. to those outside of the maritime community, the notion of piracy likely conjures up visions of Captain Kidd and Blackbeard, the sort of lifestyle, popularized in the Errol Flynn movies of the 1930x, which has long since passed into history. In reality, violence and robbery at sea is alive and well in certain geographic locations around the globe. In the past decade, the problem of pirate attack upon merchant vessels has become especially …