Item Details
Skip Navigation Links
   ActiveUsers:1111Hits:21145848Skip Navigation Links
Show My Basket
Contact Us
IDSA Web Site
Ask Us
Today's News
HelpExpand Help
Advanced search

In Basket
  Journal Article   Journal Article
 

ID090046
Title ProperPiracy in the 21st century
LanguageENG
AuthorKotlyar, Vladimir
Publication2009.
Summary / Abstract (Note)Piracy has flourished in Somalia because of its 20-year-old power vacuum and the lack of a central government capable of controlling its entire territory. Somalia's population lives in poverty, its agricultural production and indus-tries are weak. People seize at any opportunity to earn a living, and this is exploited by the bandits that lord it over in a considerable strip of the country. About 3.5 million of Somalis (or approximately 40% of the entire population) subsist on food aid sent by the UN and some other international organizations. But the pirates are now intercepting ships headed for Somalia under the UN World Food Program.
`In' analytical NoteInternational Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 55, No. 3; 2009: p59-67
Journal SourceInternational Affairs (Moscow) Vol. 55, No. 3; 2009: p59-67
Key WordsPiracy - 21st Century ;  Somalia ;  Counter-Piracy Initiatives ;  Russia ;  United States