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| Title: | Maritime piracy business networks and institutions in Africa |
| Authors: | Hastings, Justin V. Phillips, Sarah G. |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society (ISSN 1468-2621) |
| Volume: | 114 |
| Issue: | 457 |
| Pages: | 555-576 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Northeast Africa West Africa Nigeria |
| Subjects: | piracy State collapse institutions informal sector |
| External link: | http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/114/457/555.abstract |
| Abstract: | The two regions with the greatest incidence of maritime piracy in Africa, the Horn of Africa and the Gulf of Guinea, are also known for the low quality of the institutions underlying their political economies. This article investigates how institutions in these areas shape and constrain the sophisticated maritime piracy syndicates and their behaviour. Engaging with the literature on state failure and maritime piracy, the authors argue that norms and institutions constrain even criminal organizations like piracy groups, which often mimic and are embedded in the licit economy. In the Horn of Africa, pirates take structural and ideational cues from the licit economy and are constrained by the informal regulations that govern clan groups, rent-based economic activities, and collective security arrangements in Somalia. In West Africa, sophisticated piracy both preys upon and arises from the formal economy, specifically the international oil industry. As a result, piracy networks often mirror and draw from both the formal institutions in Nigeria used to regulate and protect oil production, and those engaged in oil production, processing, distribution, and transportation. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |
