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Fighting Maritime Piracy: Three Lessons From Pompeius Magnus
Piracy in international waters is on the rise again, in particular off the coast of Somalia. While the dynamic game
between pirates, ship-owners, insurance firms and the military seems to have reached some kind of equilibrium,
piracy risks generating significant negative externalities to third parties (e.g. in terms of environmental hazards and
terrorism), justifying attempts to contain it. We argue that these attempts may benefit from a look back – through
the analytical lens of rational choice theory – to the most successful counterpiracy campaign ever undertaken,
namely, the one led by the Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) in 67 BC.
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