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Private Security, Public Order - The Outsourcing of Public Services and Its Limits (Hardcover)
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Private Security, Public Order - The Outsourcing of Public Services and Its Limits (Hardcover)
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Private actors are increasingly taking on roles traditionally
arrogated to the state. Both in the industrialized North and the
developing South, functions essential to external and internal
security and to the satisfaction of basic human needs are routinely
contracted out to non-state agents. In the area of privatization of
security functions, attention by academics and policy makers tends
to focus on the activities of private military and security
companies, especially in the context of armed conflicts, and their
impact on human rights and post-conflict stability and
reconstruction. The first edited volume emerging from New York
University School of Law's Institute for International Justice
project on private military and security companies, From
Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military
Companies broadened this debate to situate the private military
phenomenon in the context of moves towards the regulation of
activities through market and non-market mechanisms.
Where that first volume looked at the emerging market for use of
force, this second volume looks at the transformations in the
nature of state authority. Drawing on insights from work on
privatization, regulation, and accountability in the emerging field
of global administrative law, the book examines private military
and security companies through the wider lens of private actors
performing public functions. In the past two decades, the
responsibilities delegated to such actors - especially but not only
in the United States - have grown exponentially. The central
question of this volume is whether there should be any limits on
government capacity to outsource traditionally "public" functions.
Can and should a government put out to private tender the
fulfilment of military, intelligence, and prison services? Can and
should it transfer control of utilities essential to life, such as
the supply of water? This discussion incorporates numerous
perspectives on regulatory and governance issues in the private
provision of public functions, but focuses primarily on private
actors offering services that impact the fundamental rights of the
affected population.
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