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Suez Canal ship traffic has dropped sharply due to frequent attacks at sea.
Piracy off the Somali coast remains a high-risk undertaking with a low probability of success.
Stopping piracy has always been difficult, expensive and time consuming. The pirates of the 21st century have proved even more resilient.
The tanker hijacking off the Somali coast will not be an isolated incident unless the international community remains engaged to root out piracy.
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Assistant Professor, Coventry University
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Pirate Historian, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen
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Associate Professor, Royal Danish Defence College
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Assistant Professor, Khalifa University
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Associate professor, Royal Danish Defence College
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
