Maritime Crime in Civil Conflict: An Extension to the Maritime Piracy Event and Location Data Project

Abstract

Our original Minerva research project on the causes of maritime piracy made notable theoretical, empirical and data collection advances. Building on this research, in particular our exploratory expert surveys on piracy in Somalia, Nigeria, Indonesia, and the Philippines, we became interested in the implications of piracy for political violence. We extended our original Minerva research project by conducting a highly spatially and temporally disaggregated examination of the relationship between lootable resources, such as the gains from piracy, illicit drugs, or the theft of natural resources and their effect on conflict intensity and duration. These analyses offer critical insights into the sustainability of insurgencies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 25, 2018
Accession Number
AD1054384

Entities

People

  • Brandon Prins
  • Ursula Daxecker

Organizations

  • University of Tennessee

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Civil War
  • Crime
  • Department Of Defense
  • Governments
  • Indonesia
  • Insurgency
  • Intensity
  • International Organizations
  • International Security
  • Natural Resources
  • Piracy
  • Political Science
  • Security
  • Street Drugs
  • Terrorists
  • Violence

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Naval Engineering and Maritime Security