South east asia piracy: Have we learnt from somali counter-piracy operations?

Abstract

The term ‘piracy’ tends to conjure images of men with cutlasses patrolling the seas of old, or perhaps images of the violent Somali pirates that dominated the headlines of 2008-2012. Few will turn their mind to South East (SE) Asia-yet here piracy and its domestic sibling, sea robbery, is a sophisticated and highly organised phenomenon which poses a significant, and current, threat across the region.