Modern Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: The Challenge of Piracy for the 21st Century

The idea of looking at modern piracy and the maritime terrorist events through the prism of different themes is rooted in the background of the editors and the belife that only through a very eclectic approach this evolving phenomenon of moder terrorism can be curbed and minimized. James N. Rosenau is a scholar in the field of social sciences. He attempts to explain the phenomenon of bifurcated politics, compared it to a water cascade whose scope, impact and duration go far beyond a given cascading event.