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    Why doesn’t it work? US Regulatory Challenges in Outsourcing Private Use of Violence in Stability Operations

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    Why doesn’t it work? US Regulatory Challenges in Outsourcing Private Use of Violence in Stability Operations  Jovana Jedeimirovic Ranito  Dissertation May 2016 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    CHRISTOPHER SPEARIN

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    Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada / Canadian Forces College — Scholar of Private Military and Security Companies, Mercenarism, and Security Privatization Continue reading →

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    Deborah D. Avant

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    For PMSC company-profile work, her most durable contribution is the disaggregation of “control of force” into political, functional, and social dimensions — a framework that resists both the “mercenaries run wild” alarmism and the “contracting is just neutral efficiency” complacency that dominate popular treatments of the industry. Continue reading →

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    Justifications, (Dis)Advantages and Implications of Designating Proxy Actor: The Case of the Wagner Group/Africa Corps

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    Beyond Wagner Group: Africa Corps Broader Implications for Other State-sponsored Proxies and Regional Security Justifications, (Dis)Advantages and Implications of Designating Proxy Actor: The Case of the Wagner Group/Africa Corps Tanya Mehra… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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    Decoding the Wagner Group: Analyzing the Role of Private Military Security Contractors in Russian Proxy Warfare

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    Russian Military Reorganization, Modernization & The Market for Private Force Decoding the Wagner Group: Analyzing the Role of Private Military Security Contractors in Russian Proxy Warfare Candace Rondeaux New America 2019 You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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    Putin’s Not-So-Secret Mercenaries: Patronage, Geopolitics, and the Wagner Group

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    An Improvised Imitation of a PMC Putin’s Not-So-Secret Mercenaries: Patronage, Geopolitics, and the Wagner Group Nathaniel Reynolds Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2019   You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    SEAN McFATE

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    the return of private force to international affairs signals a broader shift away from the Westphalian state-monopoly-on-violence system toward something structurally closer to the overlapping, non-exclusive sovereignties of medieval Europe. Continue reading →

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    KATERI CARMOLA

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    Kateri Carmola is a political theorist whose principal scholarly contribution to the private military and security company (PMSC) literature is a single-authored monograph, one foundational journal article, and a small cluster of related chapters and reviews produced between roughly 2006 and 2014. Her work is theoretical and normative rather than empirical or investigative: she does not conduct company-level fieldwork so Continue reading →

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    DOGS OF WAR: Russia’s corporate warriors in armed conflicts

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    DOGS OF WAR: Russia’s corporate warriors in armed conflicts Andreas Heinmann-Grṻder European Union Institute for Security Studies (2023) You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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    The common defense: Challenging state authority and the citizen army through the privatization of force

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    The common defense: Challenging state authority and the citizen army through the privatization of force A Thesis  Presented To The Faculty of San Diego State University In partial Fulfillment of the… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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