Piracy in Somalia

Weldemichael, Awet Tewelde

doi:10.1017/9781108683425

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“…83 Weldemichael, for example, argues that while weak governance and numbers of unemployed youth were necessary and enabling conditions for the explosion of ransom piracy after 2005, these factors only led to piracy in combination with escalating foreign predation in Somalia's waters. 84 Below, I summarize Weldemichael's research findings, based on 6 years of extensive fieldwork in Somalia, in order to foreground aspects of regional and global connectivity that shaped piracy.…”

Section: Spatial Imaginaries Of Piracy In the Gulf Of Adenmentioning

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Deterritorialized Threats and the “Territorial Trap”: The Geographical Imaginaries of Piracy in the Gulf of Aden

McNeill

2023

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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This paper investigates how modern theories of international security are being revised in relation to a perceived “deterritorialization” of the global security environment. Using the case of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, I examine how geographical imaginaries of security and insecurity are reproduced in relation to non-state, global threats. I show that while the objects to be secured from threats like piracy are interpreted in relation to networked and deterritorialized space, diagnoses of threats themselves, their origins, and their movement, rely on a territorial imaginary of political order. This attributes a one-way spatio-political directionality to global threats, as incubating in zones of local disorder before crossing into the complex, networked space of the global. Drawing on recent research into the territorialization of modern sovereignty and its relationship to European colonization and imperialism, I underscore continuities between contemporary geographical imaginaries of security and threat and those of the early 20th century. This analysis helps make explicit the spatial heuristics that are usually implicit in global security research and highlights the kinds of empirical and political questions that these heuristics sideline. The case of Gulf of Aden piracy foregrounds the material effects of these threat diagnoses, which shape particular geographies of bordering, surveillance, and state and non-state violence.

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Section: Spatial Imaginaries Of Piracy In the Gulf Of Adenmentioning

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Deterritorialized Threats and the “Territorial Trap”: The Geographical Imaginaries of Piracy in the Gulf of Aden

McNeill

2023

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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“…combined with overfishing by foreign fleets (much of it IUU). 106 The effect has been to remove an artisanal source of food and livelihoods, perpetuating instability and state fragility on land. Globally, governments have collectively paid lip-service to solving the problem of IUU fishing but have yet to implement anything like a serious attempt to stop it.…”

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Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk

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Busby²,

Dabelko³

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The environmental crisis is increasing risks to security and peace worldwide, notably in countries that are already fragile. Indicators of insecurity such as the number of conflicts, the number of hungry people and military expenditure are rising; so are indicators of environmental decline, in climate change, biodiversity, pollution and other areas. In combination, the security and environmental crises are creating compound, cascading, emergent, systemic and existential risks. Without profound changes of approach by institutions of authority, risks will inevitably proliferate quickly. Environment of Peace surveys the evolving risk landscape and documents a number of developments that indicate a pathway to solutions––in international law and policy, in peacekeeping operations and among non-governmental organizations. It finds that two principal avenues need to be developed: (a) combining peace-building and environmental restoration, and (b) effectively addressing the underlying environmental issues. It also analyses the potential of existing and emerging pro-environment measures for exacerbating risks to peace and security. The findings demonstrate that only just and peaceful transitions to more sustainable practices can be effective––and show that these transitions also need to be rapid.

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“…The UN Security Council, through resolutions 1816, 1838, 1846, and 1851, made it its explicit purpose to protect the Gulf of Aden's maritime space at all costs by allowing warships to enter Somali territorial waters. This intervention turned Somalia into a chessboard for global superpowers and maintained their influence more broadly in the region (Weldemichael, 2019). Yet, the internal and external factors that allowed piracy to flourish in Somalia, such as illegal fishing by non-Africans, dumping of toxic waste, international shipping corridors, ineffective security structure, Eritrea's hostile relationship with Ethiopia, and Somalia's instability, were left unattended -prompting Menkhaus (2009) to argue that policies of Western countries helped fanned the flames of conflicts and insecurity in Somalia.…”

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Exploring the Nexus and Utilities Between Regional and Global Ocean Governance Architecture

Adewumi

2021

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Regional and global ocean governance share complex, co-evolutionary histories in which both regimes – among others – interacted with and used the ocean and resources therein to consolidate, expand, and express power. Simultaneously, regional and global ocean governance relations have changed continuously, particularly when we are trying to understand their differences within the logic of regionalisation, regionalism, and globalisation. The paper is generally based on deductive reasoning and reflects scholarship in security studies, political science, international law, international relation, development studies, and African studies. It delves into the critical aspect of understanding the nexus/relationship between regional and global ocean governance in critical traditional and contemporary ocean policy domains, specifically from an African regional ocean governance standpoint. Ocean governance processes that are historically confronted by globalisation, multilateralism, and post-colonisation are confronted by the rise of regionalism, especially the need for nation-states and regions to respond to and manage traditional and emerging ocean challenges. Responses to these challenges by various actors, including states, economic blocks, private sector, financial institutions, and non-governmental organisations, development partners, etc., result in different forms of relationships that refocus regions’ activities toward globally defined ocean agendas. A review of different policy domains (including maritime security, environmental, economic, and socio-political governance) critical for regional ocean governance sets a robust background for understanding the contextual factors and concerns inherent in the regional-global ocean governance nexus. These outcomes, therefore, help us to arrive at a five-fold taxonomy of different types/degrees of linkages developed around the regional-global ocean governance relationship spectrum described as (1) discrete, (2) conflictual, (3) cooperative, (4) symmetric, and (5) ambiguous. Comparatively, experience and perspective from Africa are utilised to support raised arguments about these linkages. Furthermore, this spectrum allows for the diagnosis of the utilities and most prevalent arguments that regional governance’s effectiveness is directly related to the nature of the interaction between regional governance schemes and global governance; and vice-versa. This paper’s outcomes reveal how government, institutions, actors, and researchers address the relationship between regional and global ocean governance and generate a valuable way to think about current and future global and regional ocean governance direction while outlining some logical possibilities for an effective form of ocean governance.

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Piracy in Somalia

Cited by 12 publications

References 64 publications

Deterritorialized Threats and the “Territorial Trap”: The Geographical Imaginaries of Piracy in the Gulf of Aden

Deterritorialized Threats and the “Territorial Trap”: The Geographical Imaginaries of Piracy in the Gulf of Aden

Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk

Exploring the Nexus and Utilities Between Regional and Global Ocean Governance Architecture

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