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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Private Military and Security Companies"”.
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THE USE OF PRIVATE MILITARY AND SECURITY COMPANIES BY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES: ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY.
… a business enterprise operating in a risky place and retaining a private military and security company. Imagine now that, while rendering military/security services, the private contractors commit crimes against humanity with the help of the firm’s directors and the host State’s public officials. …
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The use of private military and security companies in international society: contestation and legitimation of state practice
The objective of this dissertation is to understand how the legitimacy of the state’s international use of PMSCs is evolving in contemporary international society. The first part of the dissertation develops an analytical framework that combines theoretical propositions of the English School and …
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The Road to Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies: An Analysis of the (Re-)Articulation of the Norms Governing the Legitimate Use of Force
Since the end of the Cold War, private military and security companies have gained a prominent place on the international battlefield. In an attempt to reduce monetary and political costs, states have not only outsourced some of the defense functions previously performed by uniformed personnel; …
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US Government Outsourcing, the Private Military Industry, and Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Case Study in Conflict Contracting
This thesis analyzes state utilization of private military and security companies (PMSC), using United States Government (USG) outsourcing during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) as a case study to investigate how PMSCs influence interstate conflicts. Cost savings are a primary justification for …
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A Gendered Intersectional Analysis of the Private Security Industry
… gendered analysis of the privatization of wars and armed conflicts through the use of private military and security companies (PMSC's), thus responding to an existing gap in scholarship on this matter. Two methodologies were used for this analysis. The first is a discourse analysis and …
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Legitimacy in Conflict Contexts: Shifting Rebel Engagement in Sierra Leone and the Presence of Private Contractors
… groups increasingly challenge state rule while private military and security companies (PMSCs) increasingly enter conflict spaces on behalf of a variety of actors, including states seeking to suppress insurgencies. This case study of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) during Sierra Leone’s …
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Corpses, Guns, Penises and Private Military and Security Corporations
… is to reconceptualise how the work of private military and security companies (PMSCs) comes to matter. The overarching argument is: PMSC work is made to matter through an entanglement of ‘things’, agencies and processes that are not exclusively bound to the needs or desires of clients, …
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Blackwater versus Blackbeard : which international regulations exist for the use of private maritime security companies in vessel protection operations?
The problem of piracy and armed robbery at sea has sharply risen in the last decades. As a result, shipping companies, governments, insurances and maritime organisations have tried to approach the problem in different ways, the employment of private maritime security companies being one of them. …
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Mercenarios y compañías militares y de seguridad privadas : estructuración de sus redes normativas
El objetivo de esta investigación es el de entender la construcción del derecho internacional como un proceso de estructuración a través del estudio de la redefinición de las redes normativas relativas al comportamiento de las formas privadas de violencia. Para dar alcance a este objetivo, se ha …