What are the challenges of piracy in the 21st century and what are the legal frameworks aimed to deal with the threat of piracy?

The threat of piracy did not end in the early modern period. Piracy simply changed its form and evolved to deal with modern sea voyage and contemporary movement of goods.

Part 1

Before beginning this week's post, please conduct research within the APUS library and through high quality academic resources available online to support your analytical thoughts of the following:

• Describe the characteristics of the historical and modern problems associated with piracy.
  • What kinds of legal issues can result from piracy?
  • What effect, if any, do maritime jurisdictional principles have on piracy-related legal issues?
• State the legal measures that international maritime law has developed to deal with this problem.
  • Does U.S. law and policy support these legal measures? Upon what do you base your assessment?
• Do you think these measures are sufficient or do you think there is room to develop more legal doctrines to combat modern piracy?
  • If another approach is needed, what do you recommend? Why?

Part 2

• How did the acts of researching and analyzing the influences of both legal and non-legal fields help you to better understand this week's topic?
  • Was there any specific part of this background kind of work that was particularly enlightening, or difficult, for you? What was it, and why?
    • What did you learn about persisting through to expand knowledge within that particular research or analysis task?
    • Now that you have done it, do you think that this particular research or analysis task is best done alone or as a collaborative effort? Why? If you were tasked to do something similar for a real world event occurring in real time, how would you like to approach it?
  • Do you think that this kind of exercise helps or hinders you for the possibility of making future decisions under similar circumstances?