In today's guest post, Leon Fink, author of Sweatshops at Sea: Merchant Seamen in the World's First Globalized Industry, from 1812 to the Present, reflects on the recent Somali pirate attack on a group of Americans on a private yacht. With piracy on the rise off the Somali coast, the relationship between commerce, globalization, power, and security becomes problematic. Fink looks at all the factors that surround this issue that seems to have no end or peaceful remedy in sight.-Alex The February 22 murder of four American retirees, enjoying a world cruise on their private...