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    Companies

    1. Israeli ad firm weaponises commercial network to deploy mercenary spyware
    2. Inside Erik Prince’s secretive operation taking on Haiti’s gangs
    3. Metro philadelphia protective service officer – Delivery Order to Triple Canopy Inc.
    4. Nearly 100 companies join private air defence project – Ukraine's Defence Ministry
    5. CONTRACT to GARDAWORLD FEDERAL SERVICES LLC
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    Academic

    1. Private Military and Security Companies and the European Union as an Enmeshed Security and Defense Actor
    2. The perils of outsourcing post-conflict reconstruction  donor countries international NGOs and private military and security companies
    3. Privatization of Security in Iraq with Us Intervention The Role and Effects of Contracted Personnel and Private Military and Security Companies
    4. The Cost of Saving Money Public Service Motivation Private Security Contracting and the Salience of Employment Status
    5. PRIVATE SECURITY AND ARMED MILITARY GUARDS MINIMISING STATE LIABILITY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST MARITIME PIRACY
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    Russia

    1. Remains of the Africa Corps presence at Camp Amachach
    2. Yevgeny Prigozhin is dead, but his mercenary empire lives on. His son has expanded the family business in the Central African Republic
    3. Gold, Guns, Drugs, Mercenaries: Inside A 28-Year-Old Russian's Empire
    4. The Playboy Who Inherited the World’s Most Notorious Mercenary Force
    5. A Belarusian who became a Russian mercenary returned to Slutsk — unnoticed by law enforcement. He calls on others not to die for Russia
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    Legal

    1. A Belarusian who became a Russian mercenary returned to Slutsk — unnoticed by law enforcement. He calls on others not to die for Russia
    2. Jose Alvarez Duenas v. Constellis Group/triple Canopy, Incorporated
    3. ORYX AFGHANISTAN, FARHAN YUSEFZAI, v. CONSTELLIS, LLC...
    4. JIMMIE WARREN V.. DS/CONSTELLIS GROUP and TARR INDEMNITY & LIABILITY COMPANY
    5. Colombia’s Legal Aid for Accused Mercenaries Deepens Controversy in Haiti Assassination Case
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. THE LICENSE TO FIGHT
    2. The perils of outsourcing post-conflict reconstruction  donor countries international NGOs and private military and security companies
    3. Neoliberal Governmentality A Poststructuralist Analysis of Military and Security Services Privatization Post-Cold War
    4. The Congo as a Site of Capital Accumulation: Erik Prince and the Privatization of War
    5. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency and the Information Work of the Nineteenth-Century Surveillance State
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