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States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security

By Elke Krahmann

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781139044592, 9780521110198
LCC
UA10.5 -- .K73 2010eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1919753 bytes)
Pages
319\319
Time added
2023-08-24 19:49:37
Private military companies

Description

Recent years have seen a growing role for private military contractors in national and international security. To understand the reasons for this, Elke Krahmann examines changing models of the state, the citizen and the soldier in the UK, the US and Germany. She focuses on both the national differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies and their specific consequences for the democratic control over the legitimate use of armed force. Tracing developments and debates from the late eighteenth century to the present, she explains the transition from the centralized warfare state of the Cold War era to the privatized and fragmented security governance, and the different national attitudes to the privatization of force.

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