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Somali Piracy: Why Should We Care?
RUSI Journal, December 2011Martin N Murphy
How can the international community best deal with the single biggest maritime threat since the Second World War?
Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Maritime Forces
Sanctuary, Shipowners and Paying Ransoms: Refocusing Counter-piracy Policy in an Era of Austerity
RUSI Journal, December 2011Dominick Donald
The international community can contain piracy in the short-term by denying the pirates sanctuary, engaging shipowners and avoiding the temptation to ban ransoms.
Defence Policy, Global Security Issues, Maritime Forces
Pirates and Power Politics: Naval Presence and Grand Strategy in the Horn of Africa
RUSI Journal, December 2011Lee Willett
Counter-piracy operations have proved to be a useful way for states to expand their influence in a strategically significant region.
Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Maritime Forces
Debunking the Piracy Myth: How Illegal Fishing Really Interacts with Piracy in East Africa
RUSI Journal, December 2011Stig Jarle Hansen
Did Somali piracy develop in an attempt to counter illegal fishing or is it simply a quest for profit?
Global Security Issues, International Institutions, Maritime Forces
War by Analogy: US Cyberspace Strategy and International Humanitarian Law
RUSI Journal, December 2011Jody Prescott
A new legal and policy framework, consistent with international humanitarian law, must be defined for operations in cyberspace.
Technology
Money Talks: The Surging Revolution in Counter-proliferation Strategy
RUSI Journal, December 2011Javier Serrat
Financial operational nodes are crucial to WMD acquisition networks; synchronised international efforts could cut off this crucial financial supply.
Global Security Issues, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy
An Unmanned Future for Naval Aviation: UAV Carriers
RUSI Journal, December 2011Ian Shields and James Spencer
Would remotely piloted capabilities offer a solution to the pressures placed on the UK defence budget by austerity and inflation?
Defence Policy, Maritime Forces, Technology, UK Defence
NATO After Libya: Alliance Adrift?
RUSI Journal, December 2011Jeffrey H Michaels
Undue focus on recent operations, and the 'success' of the Alliance's Libya campaign, deflects attention from the more important drivers of NATO’s future course.
International Institutions
NATO and Japan: A View from Tokyo
RUSI Journal, December 2011Michito Tsuruoka
Japan and NATO have much to gain from the relationship emerging between them.

The British Way in Warfare: Liddell Hart's Idea and its Legacy
RUSI Journal, December 2011Brian Holden Reid
While Liddell Hart's idea of a 'British Way in Warfare' is persuasive in an era of stretched budgets, it is ultimatly a deficient one. But his great contribution remains the debate that he framed.
Defence Policy
Maritime Piracy: Return of the World's Second-oldest Security Problem
RUSI Journal, December 2011Chris Bellamy
The problem of piracy has long exercised the minds of statesmen and military strategists alike. A survey of this history offers a treasure trove of tried and tested solutions.
Global Security Issues, History
Fighting and Talking: Politics and War in South and Southeast Asia, 1936-56
RUSI Journal, December 2011Christopher Bayly
Lord Louis Mountbatten is known today for his controversial role in overseeing Indian partition and independence but his efforts had a much more positive, long-lasting impact than is widely recognised.
History
Book Reviews
RUSI Journal, December 2011Reviews by Trevor Taylor, John Louth, Anna Rader, Andrew Roberts, Gordon Corrigan, John Hughes-Wilson, David Benest, Jeremy Black, David Kirkpatrick and J David Markham.
Trailer: Global Security Briefing Podcast Series
The Americans May Leave Afghanistan, but the Forever War Will Grind On
Germany, Russia and the Gambit for Bosnia