Pirate lands : governance and maritime piracy /
Ursula Daxecker and Brandon Prins.
- 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
- Oxford scholarship online .
- Oxford scholarship online. .
Also issued in print: 2021.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Maritime piracy - like civil war, terrorism, and organized crime - is a problem of weak states. Surprisingly, though, pirates do not operate in the least-governed areas of weak states. 'Pirate Lands' addresses this puzzle by explaining why some coastal communities experience more pirate attacks in their vicinity than others.