Private Military and Security Force
Does the increasing use of private military and security companies for the use of force abroad lead to unintended consequences for the United States?
... De vraag die centraal staat in dit onderzoek is: ‘ In welke mate was het beleid van afschrikking van het Verenigd Koninkrijk in 1961 en de Verenigde Staten in 1991 succesv[r] ...
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Private Military Companies: Options for Regulation
... Air Force – providing the Ethiopian Government with a critical ...specialist military skills in their battles against the ...re-establishing security in the ...
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A comparison of the different accountability mechanisms for the British Armed Forces and UK-based Private Military and Security Companies (PMSC's) operating abroad
... a military coup (Brooks, 2000; Walker & Whyte, ...of Private Military Companies (Percy, ...on Private Military Companies within three years (Walker & Whyte, ...of private ...
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The Privatization of Security and Change in the Control of Force
... of private companies providing military services is not entirely ...state, military contractors were ...10. Private security contractors (PSCs) now provide more (and more kinds of) ...
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United States Foreign Policy and the Utilisation of Private Military and Security Companies in Colombia
... Colombian security forces to the extent that they are now one of the largest, best equipped and most professional military and police outfit in the entire Latin American region and in providing these ...
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Contracting for Stability: The Potential Use of Private Military Contractors as a United Nations Rapid-Reaction Force
... In June 2015, the High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations established by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and chaired by former East Timor President José Ramos-Horta, published its comprehensive review of U.N. ...
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Incorporating Private Military/Security Companies to Peace Operations. Çağlar Kurç
... Despite the ongoing problems with peace operations and rising level of using PMSCs by states, UN agencies and aid organizations, heads of the UN continues to reject such option. The use of PMSCs can alleviate the main ...
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Private Military Companies and military reform: a case study of DynCorp in Liberia and MPRI in Bosnia and Herzegovina
... of force and the commodification of security are transforming security into a private good (Branović, ...the military institution (Grant, 1998) as capital otherwise invested in public ...
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Outsourcing military training: the role of security networks in foreign military assistance
... British military culture, which sees training as a crucial part of their job 79 as well as the previous involvement of British citizens in military ventures, which makes the British Defence establishment ...
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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
... local security forces to make way for the convoy and later disregarded warning shots fired by the Blackwater ...convoy security, responded in kind, as the conflict had shown that Iraqi insurgents would at ...
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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
... physical force or their arms to achieve their ...“shadow military mercenary of forces that [were not] accountable to the US government or to anyone else” (Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 2007, ...
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The political, legal and military implications of outsourcing to private military companies. Egmont Security Policy Brief No. 15, November 2010
... excessive force to limit near term risk alienate the local ...highest military commander’s intent (coincidentally, General Petraeus at the time) without reneging their contractual ...the military ...
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The Impact of Mercenaries and Private Military and Security Companies on Civil War Severity between 1946 and 2002
... used force in a restrained manner this result is ...of force. The reputation mechanism can only restrict force if the customer is interested in the company adhering to the norms of ...
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The Globalisation of Private Security
... The private security sector in Sierra Leone should be seen in the context of the challenges posed by the post-confl ict situation, as well as the ongoing effort to reform the country’s security ...
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SSR PAPER 3 UN Use of Private Military and Security Companies: Practices and Policies
... of Private Military and Security Companies stipulates various ways states should take responsibility for PMSC ...of force, territorial sovereignty and non‐intervention ...
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Reframing the anti-mercenary norm: Private military and security companies and mercenarism
... of force was not combat, but rather individual self-defence, they created an alternative interpretation that framed the practice as ...Defensive force has become distinct from ...cover private ...
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Private military companies in Africa : The dark horses of security outsourcing
... strike force was particular- ly useful (Sofrep, ...strike force » (Sofrep, ...for Security Studies, ...Nigerian military by improving intelligence ...
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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
... and military entrepreneurs continued to play an important ...this force without great expenditure or training, and with this the standing army became both an economic and practical ...
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Outsourcing the responsibility to protect: humanitarian intervention and private military and security companies
... of force (Percy, 2006: ...Using private companies also gives the government more scope to initiate an intervention, or to extend the size of state involvement, without public debate beforehand (Leander and ...
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A military suicide prevention program in the Israeli Defense Force: a review of an important military medical procedure
... In a statistical examination of the SPP, trend analysis showed lower suicide rates in the cohort subsequent to intervention (Shelef L, Laur L, Derazne E, Mann JJ, Fruchter E. An effective suicide prevention program in ...
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