Pirates
High quality essays written by experts on naval strategy and foreign relations are presented. Essays discuss the rise piracy off the coast of Somalia, the Gulf of Aden, and the Straits of Malacca, strategies for ending piracy, and the causes of piracy in these regions. A short history of piracy around the world is also provided.

Pirates and Piracy in the 21st Century
In the twenty-first century, piracy and pirates are still a reality in many areas of the world. Even with the stretch and scope of modern military technology, piracy occurs at a variety...
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History of Pirates and Piracy
After the decline of Rome in the fifth century CE, the raiding of ship commerce on the open seas continued quite often under the Barbarian Vandals, once they acquired the Roman...
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Piracy Around the World
An international audience learned what many involved in commercial shipping had known for years, that piracy was alive and well and living off the shores of the world’s most...
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Editor's Choice
The Pirate Latitudes.
Vanity Fair
The article discusses the 2008 pirate attack on the French ship Le Ponant that resulted in the pirates collecting a $2.15 million ransom. The article...
Pirates Return.
Yachting
The article presents information on several pirate attacks on various yachts off the coast of Somalia, East Africa including the Bahamian-registered...
Freakonomics of Maritime Piracy.
Brown Journal of World Affairs
The article examines the freakonomics of maritime piracy off the Horn of Africa, a trade route connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, Gulf...
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Pacy pirates make other pantos walk the plank
Mail on Sunday
Robinson Crusoe And The Caribbean Pirates

Retailers - Games For Holiday Sales: Pirate versus Pirate
Greater Games Industry Catalog
A light strategy game "Pirate versus Pirate," published by Out of the Box, is presented.
Pirates Articles A-Z
- 'Three Queens, Two Tigers'
- 2007 Pirates
- A RAID ON THE OYSTER PIRATES
- A rum do
- Adult books: Fiction
- Ahoy me hearties!
- ALIZAY, PIRATE GIRL
- Archie and the Pirates
- Audiovisual media: Audio
- Bandits on the run
- BBC3
- Beauty and the Pirate Beast
- Bibliography
- Blackbeard the Pirate (Book Review)
- Book Review: Grades 3-6 nonfiction
- Book reviews
- Book reviews: Fiction
- Books for middle readers: Fiction
- Books to read
- Books
- Bookshelf
- Brief reviews: Books
- Cartoon
- Celebrating all things jolly and Roger-ly
- CONTENTS
- Cowboy Pirate (Book Review)
- Decode
- Denis the Pirate
- DPR
- Eight to Twelve: How to be a Pirate
- FAMILY FAVOURITE AHOY!
- Finnigan and the Pirates
- Forecasts: Children's books
- Forecasts: Fiction
- Forecasts: Paperbacks
- FOREWORD
- Grades 5 & up: Nonfiction
- Grandma and the Pirate (Book)
- Great ESCAPES
- HAMLET AND THE PIRATES RECONSIDERED
- Hamlet and the Pirates
- High Seas Security
- How to be a Pirate
- HOW TO BE A PIRATE
- Hunting Pirate Heaven (book)
- IN SEARCH OF PIRATES
- JADDI THE MALAY PIRATE
- Kidd the Pirate
- KNIFE
- LINTANG AND THE PIRATE QUEEN
- Maggie and the Pirate (Book Review)
- Media: CD-ROMS
- MODERN DAY PIRATES
- MOVIE CHOICE
- MOVIES
- Natural exposure
- NEWS IQ
- Off the bookshelf
- OPHELIA'S LAST WORD
- Original Pirate Material (Music recording)
- Pacy pirates make other pantos walk the plank
- Pigtails the Pirate (Book)
- Pigwig and the Pirates (Book Review)
- Pirat Vodka
- PIRATE (Poem)
- Pirate Alley
- PIRATE ALLEY
- Pirate Boy
- Pirate Cinema
- Pirate Coast
- Pirate Freedom
- Pirate Girl
- Pirate Gold
- Pirate Jam (Book)
- Pirate Jupiter and the Moondogs (Book Review)
- Pirate King
- Pirate Latitudes
- pirate merchandise product news
- PIRATE MOM
- Pirate of Memories
- PIRATE PEARL (Book)
- Pirate Pete's Talk like a Pirate
- PIRATE RADIO
- Pirate Stories
- Pirate Subs!
- Pirate Treasure
- PIRATE VS. PIRATE
- Pirate vs. Pirate
- Pirate X
- Pirate's Cove (Book)
- PIRATE'S EYE
- Pirate's Passage
- Pirate
- Pirates (Book Review)
- Pirates (Book)
- Pirates (Short story)
- Pirates Ahoy!
- Pirates and Princesses
- Pirates Eat Porridge
- PIRATES OF PENSACOLA
- PIRATES OF THE BURNING SEA
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- Pirates of the Cell (Book)
- Pirates of the North Carolina Coast Review
- Pirates of the North Sea
- Pirates of the Sea!
- PIRATES ON THE FARM
- Pirates triumph to give Newcastle grounds for optimism
- Pirates vs. Privateers
- Pirates!
- Pirates! (Book)
- PIRATES! (Book)
- Pirates, Plants And Plunder
- Pirates, plants and plunder
- PIRATES
- Pirates
- Pirates: Past and Present
- PLUNDER FUL PIRATES
- Polly and the Pirates
- Prince of Pirates
- READING ASSESSMENT, SENIOR, Spring 2003/ Map of Southeast Asia
- Retailers - Games For Holiday Sales: Pirate versus Pirate
- Riddle of the pirate's treasure
- Roger, the Jolly Pirate (Book)
- ROGER, THE JOLLY PIRATE (Book)
- Sailing with Pirates
- SATURDAY
- Shiver me timbers
- Sid Meier's Pirates!
- Smart Offers the Pirates Chest
- Somalian pirates inflating national economy; goods purchased with money from ransoms
- STAGE TICKET
- TERRY AND THE PIRATES (Book Review)
- Terry and the Pirates (Book Review)
- THE ARGUMENT
- The Barbary Pirates
- THE CASE OF THE MISSING TRIERES
- The Gingerbread Pirates
- The Pirate Coast
- The Pirate Code
- The pirate demands 'Shampoo. Original!' [...]
- The Pirate King
- The Pirate Queen (Book)
- The Pirate Queen
- The Pirate Wars (Book)
- THE PIRATE'S SPUKE
- The Pirates of Gold River
- THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS (Book)
- THE PRETENDERS
- The Tale of Pirate Bob
- This Kidd Is All right
- THREE CENTURIES OF PIRACY
- Transcriber's Note
- True or False?
- TSN Power Poll: 23
- U.K. DVD seizures quintuple
- UNCLE PIRATE
- Videofile
- Walking the plank in the Yucatan
- What's for Lunch?
- Will the real Somalian Pirates please stand up Somalians rebuild, govern and organize your country
- Yo, ho, ho...it's a pirate's life for me?
- Yo-ho-ho and giddyap!
- Younger Readers
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