TY - BOOK ID - 30699415 TI - Piracy and armed robbery at sea : the legal framework for counter-piracy operations in Somalia and the Gulf of Aden AU - Geiss, Robin AU - Petrig, Anna PY - 2011 SN - 0191729752 0191018473 0191029653 9780191729751 9780191029653 1306411416 9781306411417 9780199609529 0199609527 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Piracy. KW - Piracy KW - Maritime piracy KW - Offenses against public safety UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30699415 AB - Since 2008 increasing pirate activities in Somalia, the Gulf of Aden, and the Indian Ocean have once again drawn the international community's attention to piracy and armed robbery at sea. States are resolved to repress these impediments to the free flow of trade and navigation. To this end a number of multinational counter-piracy missions have been deployed to the region. This book describes the enforcement powers that States may rely upon in their quest to repress piracy in the larger Gulf of Aden region. The piracy rules of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and th ER -