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A Tale of Two Centuries: The
Globalisation of Maritime Raiding and Piracy in Southeast Asia at the
end of the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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James F.
Warren
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The
comparative temporal perspective explored in this paper, which covers
the latter part of two centuries, the late eighteenth and the late
twentieth centuries, lends explanatory power to the treatment of
Iranun maritime raiding, on the one hand, and on the other, modern
day crime on the high seas in Southeast Asia, with particular
reference to the China connection, growing commodity flows and the
fluctuations of the global economy. The paper argues that between
1768 to 1800 and 1968 to 2000, Iranun maritime raiding and slaving
and space-age piracy and criminally related matters on the high seas
of Southeast Asia, were as much forces for engagement with world
commerce and economic growth then as globalization is a force for
maritime crime in Southeast Asia now.
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Keywords:
piracy; globalization; maritime raiding; Southeast Asia; Sulu;
Piracy,China Trade; global Economy; commodities; Iranun; slave
raiding; state power; crime--high seas; Asian syndicates.