The Governance of Private Security

Description

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China’s negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria’s first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa. The author engages with concepts and theories from IR, Political Economy, and African studies—like regime, forum shopping, and extraversion—to describe what shapes state choices in national and international fora. The volume clarifies and spells out the needed questions and definitions and proposes a synthesis of how regime formation is shaped by ideas, interests, and institutions, starting from the proposition that regulatory cooperation consists in facilitating the acceptance and use of a single identifier for private military and security companies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Marco Boggero)....Pages 1-27 Front Matter ....Pages 29-29 The Swiss Initiative (Marco Boggero)....Pages 31-53 The United Nations as Actor of Governance (Marco Boggero)....Pages 55-73 Testing PMSC Norms (Marco Boggero)....Pages 75-82 Designing Institutions: The Role of the State in Voluntary Regulation (Marco Boggero)....Pages 83-93 Front Matter ....Pages 95-105 Contestation or Accommodation (Marco Boggero)....Pages 107-117 Nigeria’s Engagement (Marco Boggero)....Pages 119-129 State and Non-State Choices in Liberia (Marco Boggero)....Pages 131-148 Sierra Leone: Continuity and Change (Marco Boggero)....Pages 149-159 Ideas and Interests in Africa (Marco Boggero)....Pages 161-177 Conclusions (Marco Boggero)....Pages 179-185 Back Matter ....Pages 187-199