国外研究现状评述
索马里海盗事件的凸显给世界各国敲响了警钟，国外学者对索马里海盗问题的研究，归纳起来说，主要包括以下几个方面：
第一，索马里海盗的出现对现行国际法有关海盗罪的概念提出挑战，一些学者从《日内瓦公海公约》和《联合国海洋法公约》对海盗罪的界定入手，提出必须修改和完善现行有关海盗罪的定义。例如，Barry Hart Dubner.Piracy in Contemporary National and International Law.The California Western International Law Journal，1998，Vol.21.又如，Rosemary Collins，Daud Hassan.Applications and Shortcomings of the Law of the Sea in Combating Piracy：A South East Asian Perspective.Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce，2009，Vol.40(1).
第二，一些学者从建立反海盗机制入手，对索马里海盗的移交、审判、刑罚等问题提出了相应的解决对策。例如，Christopher Totten，Matthew Bernal.Somali Piracy：Jurisdictional Issues，Enforcement Problems and Potential Solutions.Georgetown Journal of International Law，2010，Vol.41.又如，Craig Thedwall.Choosing the Right Yardarm：Establishing an International Court for Piracy.Georgetown Journal of International Law，2010，Vol.41.(https://www.daowen.com)
第三，一些学者从国际合作的角度谈打击索马里海盗。例如，James Kraska，Brian Wilson.The Pirate of the Gulf of Aden：The Coalition is the Strategy.Stanford Journal of International Law，2010，Vol.45.又如，Peter Lehr，Warships Won't Stop the Pirates.The Guardian.April 10，2009.再如，James Kraska，Brian Wilson，the Global Maritime Partnership and Somali Piracy，Defense＆Security Analysis，2009，Vol.25，Iss.3.接着如，Christian Bueger，Jan Stockbruegger，Sascha Werthes，Pirates，Fishermen and Peacebuilding：Options for Counter-Piracy Strategy in Somalia，Contemporary Security Policy，2011，Vol.32，Iss.2.
第四，另有些学者从护航军舰武力使用的角度谈打击索马里海盗。例如，Tullio Treves.Piracy，Law of the Sea，and Use of Force：Developments off the Coast of Somalia.European Journal of International Law，2009，Vol.20(4).又如，Patricia Jimenez Kwast，Mariti me Law Enforcement and the Use of Force：Reflections on the Categorization of Forcible Action at Sea in the Light of the Guyana/Suriname Award.Journal of Conflict＆Security Law，2008.再如，Douglas Guilfoyle，Interdicting Vessels to Enforce the Common Interest：Maritime Countermeasures and the Use of Force.The International and Comparative Law Quarterly，2007，56.
第五，还有些学者从对被逮捕海盗的人权保护角度谈打击索马里海盗。例如，Michael H Passman.Protections Afforded to Captured Pirates under the Law of War and International Law.Tulae Maritime Law Journal，2008(33).又如，Barry Hart Dubner，Human Rights and Environmental Disaster—Two Problems that Defy the Norms of the International Law of Sea Piracy.Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce，1997.再如，Michael Davey，A Pirate Looks at the Twenty-first Century：the Legal Status of Somali Pirates in an Age of Sovereign Seas and Human Rights.Notre Dame Law Review，Vol.85(3).