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Private Security Contractors and New Wars - Risk, Law, and Ethics (Hardcover)
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Private Security Contractors and New Wars - Risk, Law, and Ethics (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
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This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private
security contractors and provides guidance as to how our
expectations about regulating this expanding 'service' industry
will have to be adjusted. In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan
many of those who carry weapons are not legally combatants, nor are
they protected civilians. They are contracted by governments,
businesses, and NGOs to provide armed security. Often mistaken as
members of armed forces, they are instead part of a new protean
proxy force that works alongside the military in a multitude of
shifting roles, and overseen by a matrix of contracts and
regulations. This book analyzes the growing industry of these
private military and security companies (PMSCs) used in warzones
and other high risk areas. PMSCs are the result of a unique
combination of circumstances, including a change in the idea of
soldiering, insurance industry analyses that require security
contractors, and a need for governments to distance themselves from
potentially criminal conduct. The book argues that PMSCs are a
unique type of organization, combining attributes from worlds of
the military, business, and humanitarian organizations. This makes
them particularly resistant to oversight. The legal status of these
companies and those they employ is also hard to ascertain, which
weakens the multiple regulatory tools available. PMSCs also fall
between the cracks in ethical debates about their use, seeming to
be both justifiable and objectionable. This transformation in
military operations is a seemingly irreversible product of more
general changes in the relationship between the individual citizen
and the state. This book will be of much interest to students of
private security companies, war and conflict studies, security
studies and IR in general. Kateri Carmola is the Christian A.
Johnson Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College in
Vermont. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California,
Berkeley.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Contemporary Security Studies |
Release date: |
2010 |
First published: |
2010 |
Authors: |
Kateri Carmola
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
202 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-415-77171-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Warfare & defence >
General
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LSN: |
0-415-77171-4 |
Barcode: |
9780415771719 |
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