Governance, Naval Intervention and Piracy in Somalia

Anja Shortland () and Percy Sarah ()
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Percy Sarah: Department of Politics, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia

Peace Economics, Peace Science, and Public Policy, 2013, vol. 19, issue 2, 275-283

Abstract: Might criminals in weak states benefit from better governance? We test the relationship between Somali piracy and local business conditions as well as (naval) law enforcement. Anarchy on land is not helpful to pirates, but corruptible governance is. Increasingly effective naval measures in the Gulf of Aden displaced piracy into the Indian Ocean.

Keywords: governance; piracy; Somalia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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