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    THE REGULATION OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY SERVICES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: CURRENT POLICIES AND FUTURE OPTIONS

    THE REGULATION OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY SERVICES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: CURRENT POLICIES AND FUTURE OPTIONS You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    Contracting Blowback?: The Use of Violence by Private Security Companies and Insurgents during the Iraq War

    Contracting Blowback?: The Use of Violence by Private Security Companies and Insurgents during the Iraq War Scott Fitzsimmons Received 03 Jul 2019, Accepted 22 Dec 2019, Published online: 10 Feb 2020… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Thinking with the Intimacy Contract: Social Contract Critique and the Privatization of US Empire

    Thinking with the Intimacy Contract: Social Contract Critique and the Privatization of US Empire Rachel H. Brown First Published January 24, 2020 Research Article  Abstract This essay considers how an “intimacy… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Beyond Banning Mercenaries: The Use of Private Military and Security Companies Under IHL

    Beyond Banning Mercenaries: The Use of Private Military and Security Companies Under IHL You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    IHL’s Remedies for the Legal Status Problem of the “Corporate Warriors”

    IHL’s Remedies for the Legal Status Problem of the “Corporate Warriors” You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    Weak, Politicized, Absent: The Anti-Mercenary Norm in Italy and the United Kingdom, 1805–2017

    Weak, Politicized, Absent: The Anti-Mercenary Norm in Italy and the United Kingdom, 1805–2017 Matteo C M Casiraghi Journal of Global Security Studies, ogz076, https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz076 Published: 17 February 2020 Abstract Addressing the… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Private Contractors & Military Professionals

    Private Contractors & Military Professionals You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    “As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary

    “As Old as War Itself”? Historicizing the Universal Mercenary Malte Riemann Journal of Global Security Studies, ogz069, https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz069 Published: 26 February 2020 Abstract IR scholarship has increasingly begun to scrutinize the… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Alternative agents for humanitarian intervention

    Alternative agents for humanitarian intervention Carmen Pavel The use of private security companies by national governments is met with widespread skepticism. Less understood is the role these companies can play in… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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    Privateering and Piracy in the Spanish American Revolutions

    Privateering and Piracy in the Spanish American Revolutions You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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