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Selling security to Africa: private military and security companies PMSCs and the fate of African intrastate security

Selling security to Africa: private military and security companies PMSCs and the fate of African intrastate security Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey & Vladimir Antwi-Danso 2024 Small Wars & Insurgencies 35:6, 1050-1078 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here … Continue reading

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Chinese Private Security Companies and the limit of coercion

Chinese Private Security Companies and the limit of coercion Ricardo Pereira, Ana Luquett, Rui Forte & Mohammad Eslami Small Wars & Insurgencies 2023 34:8 1532-1557 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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Contracting Blowback The Use of Violence by Private Security Companies and Insurgents during the Iraq War

Contracting Blowback The Use of Violence by Private Security Companies and Insurgents during the Iraq War Scott Fitzsimmons (2024) Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 47:1 78-97     You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to … Continue reading

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From Nationalization to Privatization The Case of the IDF

From Nationalization to Privatization The Case of the IDF Gus Seidman Armed Forces & Society 2010 36(4) 716-749     You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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Contractors in Iraq Exploited Class or Exclusive Club

Contractors in Iraq Exploited Class or Exclusive Club Ori Swed and Daniel Burland Armed Forces & Society 2022 Vol. 48 (1) 3-24   Corporate privatization of security has generated a neoliberal… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security

US Strategy and the Rise of Private Maritime Security Jan Stockbruegger Security Studies (2021) 30:4 578-602 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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To Buy a War but Sell the Peace Mercenaries and Post-Civil War Stability

To Buy a War but Sell the Peace Mercenaries and Post-Civil War Stability Corinne Bara & Joakim Kreutz (2022) Security Studies 31:3 417-445 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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States, interstitial organizations and the prospects for liberal international order

States, interstitial organizations and the prospects for liberal international order Jozef Bátora International Affairs 97: 4 (2021) 1433-1450 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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Chinese military and security companies (CMSCs) and the limit of political-instrumentalist model of security privatization

Chinese military and security companies (CMSCs) and the limit of political-instrumentalist model of security privatization Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey (2025) Critical Military Studies  11:3 329-353 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe  

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The European Union’s use of contractors in security and defence blazing its own path of institutional change?

The European Union’s use of contractors in security and defence blazing its own path of institutional change? Caroline Batka & Jozef Batora (2025) European Security 34:2, pp. 171-190 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to … Continue reading

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