State Failure and Maritime Insecurity: an Analysis of Somali Piracy, 1991 - 2012
Abstract
This thesis set to unravel Somali piracy, a recent phenomenon of maritime trade’s centuries-old
disruptive transgression. This thesis seeks to interrogate the sources, anatomy, and implications
of a systemic Somali piracy. The thesis highlights the historical, geographical, and societal
transcendental generalizations of a subject largely clothed in systematic local undertones. The
thesis argues that Somali piracy was circumscribed by a historically embedded heritage and
physical realities that found resonance and fomentation in the society’s new and changing sociopolitical
and economic dynamics. The thesis establishes that the piracy was a consequence of an
unsteady Somali state whose peoples’ expropriatory and survivalist designs fitted into
complementary regional and international appendages. All Somali piracy players and
transactions fed into the political economy of a new episode of an old practice off the Somalia
coast. The investigation denotes unlikely facts that are different from available data on the piracy
and from piracy of the past centuries.
Publisher
University of Nairobi
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