Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Balancer's Life For Me: Reevaluating Piracy's Golden Age as a Multipolar Proxy War

• In Event: Terrorism, Piracy, and Responses to Extremism

Brief Overview

The role of Elizabethan privateers (Drake, Hawkins etc.) in prosecuting England's wars against Spain before 1650 is well known. This paper will broaden this argument to encompass other states up until the end of the American Revolution.

Author

• Dylan Craig, American University