Review – Somali Piracy and Terrorism
By Christopher L. Daniels Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2012
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ReCAAPing Asia’s Fight Against Pirates
The Indo-Pacific high seas don’t immediately bring international cooperation to mind. Indeed, most of what is newsworthy along Asia’s maritime frontier has to do with impressive new submarines or disputes over where one state’s exclusive economic zone ends and another’s begins. Despite the many sources of friction in these waters, broad multilateral security cooperation does exist – surprising though that may be to some – in the form of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP). ReCAAP doesn’t often find its way into the mainstream news, but those in the commercial shipping industry know it well. Its prime mandate is to fight back against pirates, and maintain open access to Asia’s sea lines of communication (SLOCs). In its own words , it strives to "serve as a platform for information exchange,” "facilitate communications and information exchange among participating governments,” "analyse and p...