Private Military and Security Companies

Chapter 1 Overseas Trade in Early Modernity and the Emergence of Embryonic Private Military Companies

Chapter 2 Does History Repeat Itself? A Comparative Analysis of Private Military Entities

Chapter 3 The Privatization of Military Affairs: A Historical Look into the Evolution of the Private Military Industry

Chapter 4 The Private Military Company: An Entity at the Center of Overlapping Spheres of Commercial Activity and Responsibility

Chapter 5 Soldiers of Misfortune: Is the Demise of National Armed Forces a Core Contributing Factor in the Rise of Private Security Companies?

Chapter 6 Private Security Companies: Agents of Democracy or Simply Mercenaries?

Chapter 7 Searching for Resources, Offering Security ... Private Military Companies in Sierra Leone

Chapter 8 Contracting in the Fog of War ... Private Security Providers in Iraq: A Principal-Agent Analysis

Chapter 9 Privatization of Maritime Security in Southeast Asia

Chapter 10 No Contractors on the Battlefield: The Dutch Military’s Reluctance to Outsource

Chapter 11 Privatization in the German Armed Forces

Chapter 12 The Private Security Industry in Kenya: Issues and Challenges

Chapter 13 Private Security Guards as a Socio-Professional Group in Bulgaria

Chapter 15 Human Rights and Private Military Companies: A Double-Edged Sword too Dangerous to Use?

Chapter 16 Liaisons Dangereuses: The Cooperation between Private Security Companies and Humanitarian Aid Agencies

Chapter 17 Private Security Companies and Civil-Military Cooperation

Chapter 18 Effective Peacekeeping and the Privatization of Security

Chapter 19 Norms versus Rationality: Why Democracies Use Private Military Companies in Civil Wars

Chapter 20 Back to the Future: Private Military Contractors and Political Theory in the Modern Democratic State

Chapter 21 Private Military Companies: The New Mercenaries? — An International Law Analysis

Chapter 22 Private Security and Military Companies under the International Law of Armed Conflict

Chapter 23 The Notion of ‘Direct Participation in Hostilities’ and Its Implications on the Use of Private Contractors under International Humanitarian Law

Chapter 24 Who is Responsible? The Use of PMCs in Armed Conflict and International Law

Chapter 25 Private Military Companies and Domestic Law in South Africa

Chapter 26 National Regulatory Regimes for PSMCs and their Activities: Benefits and Shortcomings

Chapter 27 Selling Security: Trade-Offs in State Regulation of the Private Security Industry

Chapter 28 Informal Regulation: An Economic Perspective on the Private Security Industry

Chapter 29 PSMCs: Lessons Learned and Where to Go from here