Insecurity at Sea: Piracy and other risks to navigation

This book brings together diverse legal opinions related to the defini-tion of piracy, the interaction between domestic and international law and the allocation of responsibility between the European Union and Mem-ber States with particular regard to cases of piracy. The main aim of the volume is to analyse State’s practice with respect to prevention and persecution of piracy, while demonstrating that the existing international legal framework does not contemplate adequate instruments to ensure security at sea and, in particular, to prevent and pursue maritime piracy and other risks to navigation. As a consequence, the increased threat to navigation by pirates had led to extensive use of guards and a marked ex-pansion in the number of firms offering armed maritime security services for ships transiting seas at high risk.