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    Companies

    1. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY, 1889–1965: Founders, organization, conquest, scandal, and the long afterlife of a corporation that governed
    2. The Congo as a Site of Capital Accumulation: Erik Prince and the Privatization of War
    3. Mike Rogers’s Wife Raked in Lucrative Government Security Contracts While Rogers Served as Intel Chair
    4. Deep State Grift’: Mike Rogers’ Wealth Soared as Wife’s Private Military Firm Won Billion-Dollar Contracts
    5. A US Mercenary Group, A Fragile Peace And Global Race For Critical Minerals
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    Academic

    1. Privateers vs pirates or the formation of a public-private partnership for the establishment of a permanent device facing the pirate threat
    2. THE BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA COMPANY, 1889–1965: Founders, organization, conquest, scandal, and the long afterlife of a corporation that governed
    3. The private actors of transnational security and their victims What possible remedies
    4. Potential Negative Externalities of Private Military Entrepreneurs from an Economic Perspective
    5. The politics of the apolitical private military companies, humanitarians and the quest for (anti-) politics in post-intervention environments
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    Russia

    1. Scots mercenary hailed a hero for fighting for Ukraine ordered to serve 14 years in jail by Putin’s Russian penal colony
    2. Russia expanding recruitment of African mercenaries amid heavy losses in Ukraine war – Bloomberg
    3. From mercenary to legitimate actor Russian discourses on private military companies
    4. Perceptions of Russia's 'return' to Africa: Views from West Africa
    5. The Hybrid War Phenomenon in the Coercive Component of Current World Politics
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    Legal

    1. The private actors of transnational security and their victims What possible remedies
    2. Scots mercenary hailed a hero for fighting for Ukraine ordered to serve 14 years in jail by Putin’s Russian penal colony
    3. US mercenary VanDyke returns to India, Delhi court allows longer stay abroad
    4. Military Service Contractors Should Reconsider Their Risk Management Strategies in Wake of SCOTUS Ending ‘Battlefield Preemption’ of State Law Tort Claims
    5. Supreme Court Realigns Government Contractor Defense
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. PMSC Watchlist & Intelligence Digest, Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026
    2. Assembling a Force to Defeat Boko Haram: How Nigeria Integrated the Market into its Counterinsurgency Strategy
    3. WAR ON TERROR AND THE PRIVATIZATION OF FORCE a first analysis of the use of private companies in the U.S. military interventions after September Eleven (2001-2011)
    4. THE ART OF WAR (FOR PROFIT)
    5. THE LEDGER OF SMALL GUNS
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