Private Military
The political, legal and military implications of outsourcing to private military companies. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 15, November 2010
... to Private Military Companies ...of private companies for corporate or logistic functions might be manageable, complementary and legitimate — outsourcing inherently governmental functions such as the ...
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Enforcement of international law obligations concerning private military security corporations
... In all these developments, analysis has focused on where current international legal principles provide coverage and where they could improve. States are looked to for assurance that their primary obligations under ...
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Differences in accountability types affecting Public Military and Private Military Actors. The cases of the Haditha Killings and Nisour Square Killings
... 65 owned company, has no obligation to share any information with the public that might hurt the company’s name. Even though public officials are often under a formal obligation to render account, this does not ...
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The regulation of private military and security services in the European Union: Current policies and future options
... International legislation and regulation plays an important role in managing PMCs/PSCs because weak states or countries engaged in conflict are often unable to enforce national laws. International criminal, human rights ...
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The Impact of Mercenaries and Private Military and Security Companies on Civil War Severity between 1946 and 2002
... … private military operations in Africa was characterized by ad-hoc groupings of former soldiers” (O'Brian, ...services, military and security consultancy, training, commercial investigations and ...
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Private military companies in Africa : The dark horses of security outsourcing
... in private military contractors can prove to be a better alterna- tive when a conflict lasts for several years without being successfully tackled by na- tional ...
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Reframing the anti-mercenary norm: Private military and security companies and mercenarism
... mercenary norm. Today, however, private military and security companies (PMSCs) are widely perceived as legitimate. How did they achieve that legitimacy? This article argues that PMSCs initially resembled ...
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The Lesser of the Two Evils: Addressing Challenges to the United Nations Peacekeeping Operations Through the Involvement of Private Military Security Companies
... wide-scale private sector integration into conventional, national intelligence ...of private intelligence contractors outnumbering conventional personnel are apparent (Rosenbach & Peritz, ...the ...
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Exploring the Necessity of Private Military Companies in the Fight against Insurgency in Nigeria
... world. Private military actors have now challenged the monopoly of organised violence enjoyed by States since the Peace Treaties of Westphalia in ...of military and security ...of military ...
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Public control of private military : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Defence and Strategic Studies), Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... of private military and indicates a measure of political ...these private ventures he would be unlikely to be held publicly accountable for the goods’ return in contested cases, a method of plausible ...
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Contracting for Stability: The Potential Use of Private Military Contractors as a United Nations Rapid-Reaction Force
... of private military forces, despite the rather narrow focus of the General Assembly on the threat private actors pose to nations seeking self- ...of Private Force, in T HE U NITED ...
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Private Military Contractors: Deploy or Avoid? Lessons from the ‘Blackwater Scandal’ in Iraq
... The private military industry has become a big player overall, as post-Cold War “downsizing and increased deployments have left ...on private contractors for logistics, supply and convoy-protection ...
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Domestic Law and Regulation of the Private Military Industry
... the private security ...provide private security ...responsible private military sector by rewarding companies which could demonstrate high professional standards, levels of transparency, ...
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Comparing privateering and private military companies
... of private military and security companies in armed conflicts around the ...(2017), private contractors outnumber ...these private military companies (PMCs) participating in violent ...
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‘We don’t do that’: A constructivist perspective on the use and non-use of private military contractors by Denmark
... Abstract: In this article I put forward a social constructivist perspective on state use of Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs). I argue and show that state outsourcing decisions are, to a ...
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An "environment full of liability and negligence"? Domestic legislation of private military and security companies in Britain and the United States
... of military contractors. These are valid questions, primarily since military contractors are not confined to a specific context of developed/less developed states or ...
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The Obama administration’s increased dependency on private military companies in Iraq and Afghanistan: A comparative study with the Bush administration
... for private contractors, while reducing at a slower pace the number of private contractors present, in order to replace US Forces that were withdrawn from the field of battle, or train Iraqi and Afghan ...
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The Privatisation of Violence: An Examination of Private Military and Security Contractors and Their Effect on Sovereignty and Fundamental Rights in a Globalised World
... of private violence has been the rule, rather than the ...upon private violence was not only a positive but more fundamentally a necessity for maintaining ...the private preserve of individual rulers ...
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United States Foreign Policy and the Utilisation of Private Military and Security Companies in Colombia
... With these factors in check, it now pays to elaborate more so on why the rise of this extensive practise of outsourcing privatised military and security functions and their adoption by countries as powerful as the ...
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Private Military Companies and military reform: a case study of DynCorp in Liberia and MPRI in Bosnia and Herzegovina
... Liberia’s individual character as a state, although heavily influenced by the US, has been shaped by its own history, culture, socio-economic factors and geography. To engage in reform processes without taking all of ...
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