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Abstract

In 2013, countries around the Gulf of Guinea established the Yaounde Code of Conduct as a maritime security regime to prevent and counter piracy and other maritime-related problems in the area. It turned out that numerous challenges made the Yaounde Code of Conduct unable to deal with the piracy problem in the area. This research, therefore, aims to explain the Yaounde Code of Conduct’s inability to deal with the problem using the Hegemonic Stability Theory, which is rooted in a power-based approach from international regimes study. By implementing explanative methods, the author argued that the absence of a hegemonic state in the Yaounde Code of Conduct regime made it unable to solve the piracy problem in the Gulf of Guinea. It is also important to examine the potential figure among the regime members to claim the hegemonic state position within the regime and the challenge that made them unable to claim that position yet.

Bahasa Abstract

Pada tahun 2013, negara di sekitar Teluk Guinea memutuskan untuk membentuk Yaounde Code of Conduct sebagai rezim keamanan maritim untuk mencegah dan melawan tindakan pembajakan dan masalah maritim lainnya di kawasan tersebut. Ternyata, walaupun inisiasi tersebut terlihat ambisius, Yaounde Code of Conduct harus menghadapi tantangan yang membuat mereka tidak mampu untuk menangani masalah perompakan di kawasan tersebut. Karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan ketidakmampuan rezim Yaounde Code of Conduct dalam menyelesaikan masalah yang ada menggunakan pendekatan Hegemonic Stability Theory yang merupakan turunan dari power-based approach dalam studi rezim internasional. Menggunakan jenis penelitian eksplanatif, penelitian ini memiliki argumen bahwa ketiadaan negara hegemon dalam rezim Yaounde Code of Conduct menjadi alasan mengapa rezim ini tidak mampu untuk menyelesaikan masalah pembajakan di Teluk Guinea. Lebih lanjut, penelitian ini juga mengkaji sosok potensial diantara anggota rezim Yaounde Code of Conduct yang mampu untuk mengklaim posisi sebagai negara hegemon di dalam rezim termasuk juga hambatan yang membuatnya belum mampu untuk mengklaim posisi tersebut.

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