| ID | 148787 |
| Title Proper | Barbary Coast in the expansion of international society |
| Other Title Information | piracy, privateering, and corsairing as primary institutions |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Colás, Alejandro |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | From the ‘long’ sixteenth century the Ottoman regencies of North Africa operated as major centres of piracy and privateering across the Mediterranean Sea. Though deemed by emerging European powers to be an expression of the ‘barbarian’ status of Muslim and Ottoman rulers and peoples, piracy, and corsairing in fact played a major role in the development of the ‘primary’ or ‘master’ institutions of international society such as sovereignty, war, or international law. Far from representing a ‘barbarian’ challenge to the European ‘standard of civilization’, piracy and privateering in the modern Mediterranean acted as contradictory vehicles in the affirmation of that very standard. |
| `In' analytical Note | Review of International Studies Vol. 42, No.5; Dec 2016: p.840-857 |
| Journal Source | Review of International Studies Vol: 42 No 5 |
| Key Words | Piracy ; Mediterranean ; International Society ; Primary Institutions ; Privateering ; Standard of Civilisation |