This research seeks to explain the problematic of maritime piracy in International Relations from a critical perspective. Using authors from both the post-structuralist school, as well as those from the post-colonial one, the research opens with a contextualisation of maritime piracy in the contemporary world, followed by an analysis of British discourses in order to unveil a Eurocentric narrative in the fight against the practice on the African continent throughout the 21st century. In its final chapter, in order to demonstrate the Eurocentrism present in the system, a post-colonial perspective will be put forward based on the European Union s actions on the topic, which not only end up affecting the system s security logics, but also compromise the production of non-Western knowledge. The conclusion is a critique of the ways in which the system has found to marginalise and dehumanise pirates, using a problem-solving logic when it comes to the concept of what piracy is, as well as what is a pirate, and what they represent in international society: a constant danger to its hegemonic interests, therefore justifying their classification as an enemy of humanity.