It can be easy to forget the critical role that maritime transport plays in the global economy, but international maritime transportation is still responsible f

"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: Logistics, Strategies, Scenarios, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-22 May 2009."

Incidents of piracy doubled in number from 2008 to 2009, highlighting the need for stronger measures to combat the problem. At the same time, the threat from te

Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them? Piracy

A total of 2,463 actual or attempted acts of piracy were registered around the world between 2000 and the end of 2006. This represents an annual average inciden