IISS Practitioner–Scholar Profile & Bibliographic Dossier Paratrooper, Private Military Contractor, and Theorist of Neomedieval War Sources: subject’s own CV (Ministero della Difesa filing), Oxford University Press, Foreign Affairs, H-Net, NDU/CISA, Atlantic…
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.