5. Houthi drone-boat attacks on Red Sea shipping: piracy or war crimes?

In this episode, Douglas Guilfoyle and Tamsin Phillipa Paige discuss the international law applicable to the use by Houthi insurgents of remotely pirated drone boats to attack merchant shipping in the Red Sea. It gets pretty geeky!
Tamsin's recommendations:
Austen Turk, Sociology of Terrorism (2004) www.annualrevi...
Rob McLaughlin, 'Whither Recognition of Belligerency?' (2020) lieber.westpoi...
Philip Drew, The Law of Maritime Blockade (2017) global.oup.com...
You might also like:
Tamsin Paige, "Piracy and Universal Jurisdiction" (2013) www6.austlii.e...
Douglas Guilfoyle, "The Laws of War and the Fight against Somali Piracy" law.unimelb.ed...
Magne Frostad, 'Houthi Attacks on Merchant Vessels in the Red Sea' (2024) lieber.westpoi... - not that we agree with all his points.
Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait