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Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap?
Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap? Åse Gilje Østensena The Naval Academy,Norwegian National Defence College Bergen, The Royal Norwegian Naval Academy, Bergen, NorwayCorrespondenceaostensen@mil.no View further author… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
THE BOYLE DEFENSE FOR GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR LIABILITY: THE SETBACKS OF THE CURRENT STANDARD AND THE NEED FOR A LESS RESTRICTIVE DEFENSE
The Boyle Defense currently prevents individuals injured by a government contractor from recovering damages if the government contractor can follow the three-step Boyle Defense test. This Note proposes two solutions that will allow a greater number of individuals injured by government contractors to recover damages successfully. First, the Note proposes limiting the Boyle Defense to only government contractors who are working on military contracts. Next, the Note proposes an alternative solution that prevents government contractors who are engaged in service-based contracts from using the Boyle Defense. These two limitations will reduce the number of government contractors escaping liability. As this Note will demonstrate, the current standing of the Boyle Defense needs to be limited in its application to allow those injured by government contractors a greater likelihood of being able to recover damages. Continue reading
International Law and the Control of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies
International Law and the Control of Mercenaries and Private Military Companies Christopher Kinsey Cultures & Conflicts 2008 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
THE DORSAI CONTRACT
Gordon R. Dickson’s Dorsai novels (beginning with Dorsai! in 1959 and continuing across the Childe Cycle) construct a planetary society whose sole exportable good is elite soldiering, organized around a rigorously contractual ethic of service. This dossier argues that the Dorsai model is not merely a science-fiction invention but a distilled, idealized synthesis of institutional patterns that recur across the historical and contemporary mercenary trade: the economic logic by which resource-poor populations convert martial skill into an export commodity; the use of binding, honor-policed contracts as the organizing principle of loyalty; and the cultivation of elite-selection pipelines as a market signal of quality. Continue reading
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JOVANA JEZDIMIROVIC RANITO
Dr. Jovana Jezdimirovic Ranito is a Serbian-born scholar of international security and the private use of force who occupies an unusual dual position: a tenured-track academic post at the University of Twente’s honours college, University College Twente (UCT/ATLAS), and, concurrently, one of the most consequential international human-rights mandates dealing with privatized force — Chairperson-Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries. Continue reading
Why doesn’t it work? US Regulatory Challenges in Outsourcing Private Use of Violence in Stability Operations
Why doesn’t it work? US Regulatory Challenges in Outsourcing Private Use of Violence in Stability Operations Jovana Jedeimirovic Ranito Dissertation May 2016 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
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CHRISTOPHER SPEARIN
Professor, Department of Defence Studies, Royal Military College of Canada / Canadian Forces College — Scholar of Private Military and Security Companies, Mercenarism, and Security Privatization Continue reading
Deborah D. Avant
For PMSC company-profile work, her most durable contribution is the disaggregation of “control of force” into political, functional, and social dimensions — a framework that resists both the “mercenaries run wild” alarmism and the “contracting is just neutral efficiency” complacency that dominate popular treatments of the industry. Continue reading
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Justifications, (Dis)Advantages and Implications of Designating Proxy Actor: The Case of the Wagner Group/Africa Corps
Beyond Wagner Group: Africa Corps Broader Implications for Other State-sponsored Proxies and Regional Security Justifications, (Dis)Advantages and Implications of Designating Proxy Actor: The Case of the Wagner Group/Africa Corps Tanya Mehra… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Decoding the Wagner Group: Analyzing the Role of Private Military Security Contractors in Russian Proxy Warfare
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