Pirates of Empire: Colonisation and Maritime Violence in Southeast Asia. By Stefan Eklöf Amirell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 266 pp. ISBN: 9781108484213 (cloth)

Throughout this study, Eklöf Amirell focuses on what he calls “securitisation,” first to explain how colonial powers drew attention to the issue of piracy by contextualizing it as a major threat to security and stability in the region, and second, as a justification for territorial annexation and th...

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