Trends in Maritime Violence: A Special Report from Jane's Intelligence Review and Jane's Sentinel (Jane's Special Reports) [Paperback]

Samuel Pyeatt Menefee (Author), Brett D. Kravitz (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1997 | Series: Jane's Special Reports

An investigation of the causes and effects of new trends in maritime piracy is presented in this report. It includes social and economic factors, links with terrorism and the drugs trade, high-risk regions, vulnerable cargoes and vessels, and consequences for ship operators and insurers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: Janes Information Group (February 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0710614039
• ISBN-13: 978-0710614032
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,760,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sam Menefee (1950-date) was born in Denver, Colorado, coming of age in Louisiana and Virginia. He obtained degrees from Yale (where he was a Scholar of the House), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), Harvard Law, Virginia, and Cambridge. He has been affiliated with the Centers for Oceans Law and Policy and National Security Law at UVA for over a quarter century, and currently serves as an adjunct professor at World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden. Menefee is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and the Royal Anthropological Institute; his first book, Wives for Sale, won the inaugural Katharine Briggs Prize of the Folklore Society. He has been admitted to the bars of seven states and the District of Columbia and is a recognized expert on piracy and maritime terrorism, having written over fifty-five chapters and articles on the subject, and been made a Huntingdon Fellow by the Mariners' Museum. Over the years, Menefee has tramped Hadrian's Wall and the Pennine Way, stalked red deer in the Highlands and hunted in Mozambique, sailed in the Bahamas and john-boated down the Yukon, rowed three times for the Oxford Lightweights and written a musical, and climbed in the Highlands and Alps (just making it to the top of Mount Sinai on a recent trip). Not yet content to raise bees in the country, he looks forward to new academic interests and other challenges.

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This review is from: Trends in Maritime Violence: A Special Report from Jane's Intelligence Review and Jane's Sentinel (Jane's Special Reports) (Paperback)

Dr. Menefee, a Maury Fellow, has clearly described the trends in shipping / piracy and the international response to the disturbing facts that he and the other contributors have carefully documented.

The book is written in a language foreign to most legal scholars: English.

A superb reference; an excellent baseline for assessing future trends and a disturbing report of the ongoing threats to shipping.