Pirates in a new guise?

Douglas R. Burgess Jr. argued last summer that "Terrorists, like pirates, must be given their proper status in law: hostis humani generis, enemies of the human race." Along the way he provided a history of piracy and international law. (Via neo-neocon)

Burgess is the author of


Seize the Trident: The Race for the Superliner Supremacy and How it Altered the Great War