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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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    Death squads, security forces and private justice organizations Paramilitaries in contemporary Latin America

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    Death squads, security forces and private justice organizations Paramilitaries in contemporary Latin America By Julie M. Mazzei Submitted to the Faculty of the School of Public Affairs Of American University In… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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    Canada’s Shadow Workforce: The Effects of Military Privatization on Political Behaviour and Authority within Liberal-Democratic States, and Their Implications for International Security

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    Canada’s Shadow Workforce: The Effects of Military Privatization on Political Behaviour and Authority within Liberal-Democratic States, and Their Implications for International Security By Stefan Edard Vincente Ferraro A thesis submitted in… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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    Selective privatization of security: Why American strategic leaders choose to substitute private security contractors for national military force

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    Selective privatization of security: Why American strategic leaders choose to substitute private security contractors for national military force   A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University In… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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    Privatization of Security Revisited the Expansion of Private Security Companies in the Age of Hybrid Conflict (2013-2025)

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    Privatization of Security Revisited the Expansion of Private Security Companies in the Age of Hybrid Conflict (2013-2025) Andrei Alexandru Babadac Available online 15 January 2026 Bulletin of “Carol I” National Defense… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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