Private security contractors and new wars risk, law, and ethics
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 n...
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London ; New York
Routledge
2010
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| Series: | Contemporary security studies
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Table of Contents:
- The complex identity of the PMSC
- The multifaceted origins of the PMSC industry
- Contracting and danger in the risk society
- PMSCs and the clash of legal cultures
- Frontier ethics with a cosmopolitan goal
- Epilogue: Problems and solutions