The 21st Century Piracy and International Order

It was really surprising this current wave of piracy near the coasts of Somalia. This is almost the last thing anybody can imagine or expect in the twenty-first century.

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Besides the spreading wave of cross-border terrorist attacks across the world, now there is a very serious wave of piracy in one of the most important navigation routes in the world in terms of international trade with a major contribution to this trade in addition to international economy.

Not to mention, in this regard, the vital importance this navigation route has in delivering the vital needs of many peoples along with this route. In addition, this route's importance and vitality should be connected with its geographic qualities, in particular in nearing distances between many destinations in the world's continents, especially from the Mediterranean Sea's ports. This also leads to the strategic importance of this route in terms of connecting the world's continents in a very efficient way.

Now, this vital and strategic navigation route is seriously endangered by pirates, who easily defy the entire world and hijack ships for money with no limits to their activities as they even target heavy weapons and oil shipments. In fact, I can suggest that, at present, they somewhat dominate this strategic vital route.

This is really a strange reality in the twenty-first century that even my dictionary interprets the word of 'pirate' starting with the phrase "especially in the past."

The world could not yet to cope with the dangers and threats of spreading cross-border terrorism while suffering from terrorist attacks and the proliferation of this terrorism. Then, to be added to those dangers this new type of international dangers, which are also pending to be tackled by international efforts and actions.

This series of various threats and dangers striking the world produce a general reality of vulnerability at the world's level, and show how failed is the current international order in terms of ensuring security or an acceptable level of security in the world.

Actually, those pirates, defying the entire world while hijacking whatever they want of ships, show in a very clear way the fiasco of the international order, especially the leading international powers, in dealing with this international affair, which has a vital importance for the world.

I said it years ago, the current international order has failed in terms of world's security and it should be developed into a more internationalist shape based on a new structure of internationalism rather than unilateralism, as the world's dangers and threats become having more international base and nature than ever were.