The outlaw seas and international terrorismI’ve just read Jonathan Raban’s excellent but disturbing review in the New York Review of Books (August 12, 2004) of a new book by William Langeweische, entitled The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos and Crime. I’ll just try to summarise it and draw some implications.There are 143,000 ships on the world’s seas. Probably a majority are under flags of convenience, which they change at will as they do the ship’s name. Many are old rust-buckets. Many ha…
