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Alex Colas on the Barbary Coast in the expansion of international society

A new article in the Review of International Studies journal explores how Barbary piracy, privateering, and corsairing acted as ‘derivative’ primary institutions of international society.

Our Assistant Dean, Alex Colas has published a new article in the Cambridge journal Review of International Studies.

The article explores how Barbary piracy, privateering, and corsairing acted as ‘derivative’ primary institutions of international society. Drawing on recent ‘revisionist’ accounts of the expansion of international society, it argues that piracy and corsairing simultaneously contributed to the construction of law and sovereignty across the Mediterranean littoral whilst also prompting successive wars and treaties aimed at outlawing such practices.

The article is available online here.

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