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    Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals

    Syndicated on by David Isenberg

    Trump Gives Green Light to U.S. Companies to Aim Hacks at Cybercriminals The practice would align the United States more closely with countries like China and Russia, where spy agencies have… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading →

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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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    THE WEIGHT OF PAPER

    Published on by David Isenberg

    states. What changed after 1648, and more decisively in the nineteenth century, was not the practice of private force. It was the normative claim that the state should hold a monopoly on it — a claim never fully realized, but one that became the organizing fiction of the international system. Continue reading →

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    THE BRUSSELS GAMBIT

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    Somewhere on a tablet in her deputy’s coat pocket, unread until the car, a routine notice was already waiting: a Gulf-registered subsidiary of a Texas-headquartered firm had that afternoon signed a contract to field an autonomous perimeter network for a private consortium operating in the South China Sea. The market, whatever the communiqué said, was not waiting for Brussels to catch up to it. It never had. Continue reading →

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    THE ARCHIVE OF LOST MONOPOLIES

    Published on by David Isenberg

    “My grandmother was born in 1998,” Ilse said. “She lived to see the transition. She told me that in her youth, the idea of a private soldier was still slightly scandalous. Mercenaries belonged to failed states and colonial wars. They were ‘dogs of war,’ and the phrase was an insult. By the time she died in 2081, the scandal had inverted. It was the state soldier who seemed anachronistic. Quaint. Inefficient. Why pay for a standing army when the Consortium, or Apex Global, or the Praetorian Cooperative could provide better rates, no pension obligations, and no flag-draped coffins? She said the last time she saw a uniformed national soldier was 2069, at a heritage parade. He looked like a reenactor.” Continue reading →

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    Union Sues TSA Over Secret Plan to Privatize Security

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    The American Federation of Government Employees says the Trump administration hid its plan to turn airport security over to private companies like Palantir. Continue reading →

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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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    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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