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‘Guns for Hire, Death on Demand’: The Permissibility of U.S. Outsourcing of Drone Attacks to Civilian Surrogates of the Armed Forces and Challenges to Traditional Just War Theory
‘Guns for Hire, Death on Demand’: The Permissibility of U.S. Outsourcing of Drone Attacks to Civilian Surrogates of the Armed Forces and Challenges to Traditional Just War Theory Kevin H. Govern… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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The South African Defence Review (2012) and Private Military/Security Companies (PMSCs): Heralding a Shift from Prohibition to Regulation?
The South African Defence Review (2012) and Private Military/Security Companies (PMSCs): Heralding a Shift from Prohibition to Regulation? Laurence Juma Rhodes University – Law James Tsabora Rhodes University December 10, 2013… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Regulating the Global Security Industry: A Liberal Normative Perspective
Regulating the Global Security Industry: A Liberal Normative Perspective Author: Krieg, Andreas Source: St Antony’s International Review, Volume 9, Number 2, February 2014, pp. 39-53(15) Abstract: As the global security industry is… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Pushing the Limits of the US Warrior Ethos: Understanding the Extensive Use of Private Military Companies in Iraq
Pushing the Limits of the US Warrior Ethos: Understanding the Extensive Use of Private Military Companies in Iraq Détails Titre: Pushing the Limits of the US Warrior Ethos: Understanding the Extensive… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Beating Blackwater: Using Domestic Legislation to Enforce the International Code of Conduct for Private Military Companies
COMMENT: Beating Blackwater: Using Domestic Legislation to Enforce the International Code of Conduct for Private Military Companies May, 2014 The Yale Law Journal Online 123 Yale L.J. Online 2559 Author REEMA… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Beyond the Trinitarian Institutionalization of the Warrior Ethos – A Normative Conceptualization of Soldier and Contractor Commitment in Post-Modern Conflict
Defence Studies Volume 14, Issue 1, 2014 Beyond the Trinitarian Institutionalization of the Warrior Ethos – A Normative Conceptualization of Soldier and Contractor Commitment in Post-Modern Conflict DOI: 10.1080/14702436.2014.890335 Andreas Krieg*… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Bureaucratic Interests and the Outsourcing of Security: The Privatization of Diplomatic Protection in the United States and the United Kingdom
Bureaucratic Interests and the Outsourcing of Security The Privatization of Diplomatic Protection in the United States and the United Kingdom Eugenio Cusumano1⇑ Christopher Kinsey2 1Department of Political and Strategic Studies, Baltic… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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Regulating private security sector in post conflict environments: why are we avoiding an elephant in the room?
Regulating private security sector in post conflict environments: why are we avoiding an elephant in the room? Jovana Jezdimirovic Ranito, Universidade de Coimbra/CES, jovanaranito@ces.uc.pt Paper presented on 5th Bienial Conference on… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Marketing the Gurkha security package: Colonial histories and neoliberal economies of private security
Marketing the Gurkha security package: Colonial histories and neoliberal economies of private security Amanda Chisholm School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, UK Amanda Chisholm. Email: amanda.chisholm@bristol.ac.uk Abstract… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security
The Invisible Soldiers: How America Outsourced Our Security by Ann Hagedorn (Author) The urgent truth about the privatization of America’s national security that exposes where this industry came from, how it… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading