Outsourcing War and Peace - Preserving Public Values in a World of Privatized Foreign Affairs (Hardcover)

Over the past decade, states and international organizations have shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign private firms do violence or create harm? This timely book describes the services that are now delivered by private contractors and the threat this trend poses to core public values of human rights, democratic accountability, and transparency. The author offers a series of concrete reforms that are necessary to expand traditional legal accountability, construct better mechanisms of public participation, and alter the organizational structure and institutional culture of contractor firms. The result is a pragmatic, nuanced, and comprehensive set of responses to the problem of foreign affairs privatization.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Laura A. Dickinson
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-14486-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General
LSN:	0-300-14486-5
Barcode:	9780300144864

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