Navigating the maritime piracy regime complex

Global Governance

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-104

  Struett, Michael J ^a   Nance, Mark T ^a   Armstrong, Diane ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Convention on the law of the Sea; International maritime bureau; International maritime organization; Maritime piracy; Regime complex

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867116628     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: 19426720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01901008     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. International Chamber of Commerce, "2009 Worldwide Piracy Figures Surpass 400, " January 2010, www.icc-ccs.org/news/326-2009-worldwide-piracy-figures-surpass-400 (accessed 7 April 2010). The ICC reported 406 attacks in 2009.
2. For a discussion of the role of the UN Security Council as a component of the maritime piracy regime complex, see Mark Nance and Michael Struett, "Conflicting Constructions: Maritime Piracy and Cooperation Under Regime Complexes, " in Michael Struett, Jon Carlson, and Mark Nance, eds., Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance (New York: Routledge, 2012).
3. Fariborz Zelli, Aarti Gupta, and Harro van Asselt, in this issue, demonstrate that complexes can also have a common normative framework with differing details. Jean-Frédéric Morin and Amandine Orsini, in this issue, suggest that the difference may be a question of the developmental stage of the complex. We accept that possibility.
4. Kal Raustiala and David G. Victor, "The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources, " International Organization 58, no. 2 (2004): 277-309.
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18. Hafner-Burton, "The Power Politics of Regime Complexity. "
19. Alter and Meunier, "The Politics of International Regime Complexity. "
20. D. W. Drezner, "The Power and Peril of International Regime Complexity, " Perspectives on Politics 7, no. 1 (2009): 65-70.
21. These piracy provisions are restatements of the provisions in the 1958 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The United States is not yet a party to the 1982 UNCLOS, but adheres to the definition of piracy that was reproduced from the 1958 Convention and considers states parties to UNCLOS 1982 to remain reciprocally bound to those provisions with the United States.
22. James Kraska and Brian Wilson, "Maritime Piracy in East Africa, " Journal of International Affairs 62, no. 2 (2009): 55-68.
23. The 1988 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation, done at Rome 10 March 1988, entered into force 1 March 1992.
24. For a list of the current private groups with IMO consultative status, see www.imo.org/About/Membership/Pages/NGOsInConsultativeStatus.aspx.
25. Kraska and Wilson, "Maritime Piracy in East Africa. "
26. International Maritime Organization, "Action Plan to Promote the 2011 World Maritime Day Theme: Piracy-IMO Orchestrating the Response, " 3 February 2011, www.nato.int/nato_static/assets/pdf/pdf_2011_02/20110210_1102-WMDLeaflet.pdf.
27. See www.icc-ccs.org/piracy-reporting-centre.
28. See www.icc-ccs.org/piracy-reporting-centre.
29. Paul J. Bauer, "The Maritime Labour Convention: An Adequate Guarantee of Seafarer Rights, or an Impediment to True Reforms?" Chicago Journal of International Law 8 (2008): 643-659.
30. For a critique of this practice, see Rose George, "Flying the Flag, Fleeing the State, " op-ed, New York Times, 24 April 2011.
31. For an example of the way IMB statistics are cited as authoritative, see Martin N. Murphy, Small Boats, Weak States, and Dirty Money: Piracy and Maritme Terrorism in the Modern World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), pp. 50-51. For current piracy incident reporting, see www.icc-ccs.org/piracy-reporting-centre/live-piracy-report.
32. Murphy, Small Boats, Weak States, and Dirty Money.
33. Michael Scott Moore, "Britannia's (Insurers) Rule the Waves, " Miller McCune, European Dispatch, 23 February 2011.
34. See www.smslegal.com/blog/maritime-industry-urges-anti-piracy-force (accessed 16 October 2011).
35. For a full discussion, see Yvonne M. Dutton, "Maritime Piracy and the Impunity Gap: Insufficient National Laws or a Lack of Political Will?" Tulane Law Review 86 (2012).
36. Mark Nance interview with US government official by telephone from Frankfurt, Germany, 27 July 2011.