Jessica Larsen

Counter-Piracy Law in Practice

An Ethnography of International Security Governance

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is a socio-legal study of counter-piracy. It takes as its case the law enforcement efforts after 2008 to suppress piracy off the coast of Somalia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9781032226767
• ISBN-10: 1032226765
• Artikelnr.: 66733056

Autorenporträt

Jessica Larsen is a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

About the author
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Introduction
All things legal
On existing studies of counter-piracy
An ethnography of counter-piracy
The methodological approach
On related approaches
Organisation of the book
Literature
2 The law: legal debates on counter-piracy in the western Indian Ocean
Definitions of piracy: narrow or broad?
Locating jurisdiction, or the shall/may conundrum
UN Security Council bolstering legal authority
Piracy actors also have human rights
Seychelles' codification of UNCLOS, and then some
Concluding remarks
Literature
3 The approach: 'Following the law' in practice
Law as process
The primacy of practice, counter-piracy's emergence
The analytical building blocks
'Following the law' across key sites
Ethnographic methods and ethical pointers
Policies and laws as ethnographic data
Concluding remarks
Literature
4 The warship: maritime policing in the Indian Ocean
The political mandate
The ethnographic disappearance of law
Deciding upon the sources to intercept
Sources with a national 'filter'
Regulation guiding constabulary tasks
A gap in military police jurisdiction
'Urgent steps', or narrowing the gap
Expanding 'urgent steps' in practice
Concluding remarks
Literature
5 The courtroom: piracy prosecution in Seychelles
Characteristics of Seychelles' piracy trials
Identifying the accused in court . . . . . . or defining the 'Pirate Action
Group'
Establishing common intention
Using the 'wrong' section in the 'right' way
The curious tendency of successful appeals
Concluding remarks
Literature
6 The implications: socio-legal conclusions on counter-piracy
Policy implications of ethnographic findings
Proving the illegal act of piracy
Codifying UNCLOS articles in domestic law
The warship's use of force
The constabulary function of navies
Human rights obligations
The limitations of law enforcement
Complementarity of the 'socio-' and the 'legal'
Index

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About the author



Acknowledgements



Preface

1 Introduction



All things legal

On existing studies of counter-piracy

An ethnography of counter-piracy

The methodological approach

On related approaches

Organisation of the book

Literature



2 The law: legal debates on counter-piracy in the western Indian Ocean



Definitions of piracy: narrow or broad?

Locating jurisdiction, or the shall/may conundrum

UN Security Council bolstering legal authority

Piracy actors also have human rights

Seychelles' codification of UNCLOS, and then some

Concluding remarks

Literature



3 The approach: 'Following the law' in practice



Law as process

The primacy of practice, counter-piracy's emergence

The analytical building blocks

'Following the law' across key sites



Ethnographic methods and ethical pointers



Policies and laws as ethnographic data

Concluding remarks

Literature



4 The warship: maritime policing in the Indian Ocean



The political mandate

The ethnographic disappearance of law

Deciding upon the sources to intercept

Sources with a national 'filter'

Regulation guiding constabulary tasks

A gap in military police jurisdiction

'Urgent steps', or narrowing the gap

Expanding 'urgent steps' in practice

Concluding remarks

Literature



5 The courtroom: piracy prosecution in Seychelles



Characteristics of Seychelles' piracy trials

Identifying the accused in court . . . . . . or defining the 'Pirate Action Group'

Establishing common intention

Using the 'wrong' section in the 'right' way

The curious tendency of successful appeals

Concluding remarks

Literature



6 The implications: socio-legal conclusions on counter-piracy



Policy implications of ethnographic findings

Proving the illegal act of piracy

Codifying UNCLOS articles in domestic law

The warship's use of force

The constabulary function of navies

Human rights obligations

The limitations of law enforcement

Complementarity of the 'socio-' and the 'legal'

Index