Maritime Piracy In Somalia:Impact And Reactions

The purpose of this study was to outline and appraise the problems facing the country from where most modern pirates originate:Somalia.Another aim was to examine the international response to the piracy epidemic.Through this investigation,the argument was made that only by the resolution of Somalia’s long-standing social,economic,and political problems will any substantial headway be made to erase its piracy epidemic from existence and secure the safe passage of its vital commercial waterways.The thesis employed a qualitative analysis and a case study approach.While some statistics and economic figures were included in writing about the social and economic context in Somalia,the nature of this study required that most of the methodology be qualitative.The dependent variable,the topic under consideration,was modem piracy,Somali piracy in particular.The independent variables,the variables that explained the dependent variable,were the social,economic,and political problems in the pirates’ host country,including those in the case study of Somalia.The principal conclusion was that the elimination of piracy from the Gulf of Aden and its environs depends not only on the general international economic situation,but also on the willingness of the actors involved to seriously address,and ultimately expunge,the epidemic through substantial aid to Somalia.The international media,for its part,also shares responsibility in keeping this modem scourge under scrutiny.As of this writing,the epidemic is ongoing,however,so whether or not these conditions will be met ultimately depends upon the march of time.The Somalia based piracy,maritime piracy represented the main issue in 2008,has attained a residual level.A lot of attacks have been reported off the coasts of the Horn of Africa,the efficiency of the international maritime response and the continental dimension of the phenomenon.This other dimension is forgotten often,it is purpose where the explanation of the disappearance of lays piracy.Indeed,the late evolutions in the political atmosphere of Somalia and the involvement of the local institutions in a process of state-building scum to be the causes of the Somali piracy’s end.The Somali maritime piracy offers the possibility to reconsider its causes and develop an eradication of piracy model.This model could have a claim to practice geopolitics,only,Somali piracy has already reached an extremely low level and the issue is no longer the decrease,but to prevent its resurgence.In this case,it should reuse the items that were discussed above,namely the root causes of piracy,and the factors that could show more or less effectively they played a role in the drastic reduction piracy.This study displayed the economic impact of the maritime piracy operations on the seaborne trade in the area of the Red Sea and Somalia.The study problem was focused on measuring the impact last maritime piracy actions on the seaborne trade in the research area due to the impact of the seaborne trade and ships operation.The study aimed at identifying the maritime piracy’s impact on the seaborne trade in the research area because of the economic significance of this area by including a number of ports and being one of the main world trade lines.The study problem was handled within the formulation of the study’s major hypothesis which indicates that piracy actions have negative effects that could have been measured by applying measurement tools to insurance,the freight and extra costs when the ships change their routes.The study followed the historical approach by describing the phenomenon of the piracy,and the analytical and descriptive approach by describing the data and information gathered from the sea transport institutions and analyzed data by using statistical packages in calculating the percentages and interactional relations of the data with a view to reach finds.