Map of pirate waters5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() “Weak states,” according to Prins aren’t just associated with piracy, but also political violence, insurgencies, and terrorism like Boko Haram in Nigeria. One such factor is “weak states” or governments that lack the resources necessary to effectively combat piracy. Department of Defense, told The Globe Post there are a variety of factors that correlate with the hotspots of pirate activity. Prins, who studies global piracy in partnership with the U.S. “If you look at piracy in 1998…you’re probably in the range of 200 to 250 incidents…Once the Somali piracy went away, you went back to the more average or common amount of piracy.” Root Causes of Pi racy “ If you compare to something like 2009, 2010, 2011, then it has decreased and decreased significantly…but the decrease is much larger as a result of this abnormal increase in Somali piracy,” Prins said. ![]() Read about today’s trends with our latest #IMBPiracy report. Since then, attacks have returned to levels comparable to those of the late 1990s before a slight uptick in the number of attacks last year.Ģ018 saw a dramatic increase in #Piracy. During the period between 20, the IMB was recording more than 400 pirate attacks each year largely driven by Somali piracy. Notable, however, is even in these hubs of pirate activity, the rate of pirate attacks has largely declined. In Southeast Asia, those hotspots are the Sulu and Celebes seas as well as the Malacca Strait and Bangladesh. Pirate Attack “Hotspots”Īccording to Brandon Prins a professor of international relations at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, the major hotspots for piracy in Africa are the Gulf of Guinea and the Gulf of Aden. Pirate attacks largely occur in a few “hotspots” around the globe and are driven by a number of factors ranging from corruption and institutional weakness to fishing conditions and a lack of economic opportunities. While maritime piracy has seen a decline since its height in 2010, the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) still records hundreds of pirate attacks each year with just over 200 in 2018 alone. ![]() But piracy in the modern era takes a very different form, mostly in regions where “weak states” are easily corruptible and scarce economic opportunities in legal forms of work make piracy an appealing alternative. When you hear about pirates, the first thing that probably comes to mind is images of an era long past, with rebellious swashbucklers gallivanting across the seven seas in search of treasure. ![]()
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