Center for Security Studies

No. 55: Making Waves: Piracy Floods the Horn of Africa

No. 55: Making Waves: Piracy Floods the Horn of Africa

Author(s): Matthew Hulbert
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 55
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2009

As the recent spike of attacks in the Gulf of Aden attests, piracy is becoming a major concern for regional security and trade. Incidents are becoming more frequent, violent, sophisticated, and organized as the pirates extend their reach into the India Ocean. If this mould is to be broken, the international community needs a more nuanced approach to tackling both the causes and effects of piracy by addressing economic dislocation and state fragility on the one hand and international maritime cooperation on the other. Nowhere will this be more challenging than in the Horn of Africa.

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