Private Military and Security Contractors: Controlling the Corporate Warrior
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Private Military and Security Contractors : Controlling the Corporate Warrior. / Schaub Jr, Gary John (Editor); Kelty, Ryan (Editor).
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016. 440 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Research › peer-review
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Private Military and Security Contractors
T2 - Controlling the Corporate Warrior
A2 - Schaub Jr, Gary John
A2 - Kelty, Ryan
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - In Private Military and Security Contractors: Controlling the Corporate Warrior a multinational team of 16 scholars and a practitioner from political science, sociology, and law address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of control include addressing the microfoundations of the market: the social and role identities of contract employees, their acceptance by military personnel, and potential tensions between them. The extent and willingness of key states—South Africa, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Israel—to monitor and enforce discipline to structure their contractual relations with PMSCs on land and at sea is examined, as is the ability of the industry to regulate itself. Finally, they assess the nascent international legal regime to reinforce state and industry efforts to encourage effective practices, punish inappropriate behavior, and shape the market to minimize the hazards of loosening states’ oligopolistic control over the means of legitimate organized violence. Together, the volume presents a theoretically-informed synthesis of micro- and macro-levels of analysis, producing new insights into the challenges of controlling the agents of organized violence used by states for scholars and practitioners alike.
AB - In Private Military and Security Contractors: Controlling the Corporate Warrior a multinational team of 16 scholars and a practitioner from political science, sociology, and law address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of control include addressing the microfoundations of the market: the social and role identities of contract employees, their acceptance by military personnel, and potential tensions between them. The extent and willingness of key states—South Africa, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Israel—to monitor and enforce discipline to structure their contractual relations with PMSCs on land and at sea is examined, as is the ability of the industry to regulate itself. Finally, they assess the nascent international legal regime to reinforce state and industry efforts to encourage effective practices, punish inappropriate behavior, and shape the market to minimize the hazards of loosening states’ oligopolistic control over the means of legitimate organized violence. Together, the volume presents a theoretically-informed synthesis of micro- and macro-levels of analysis, producing new insights into the challenges of controlling the agents of organized violence used by states for scholars and practitioners alike.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - military sociology
KW - private military and security companies
KW - South Africa
KW - Israel
KW - United States
KW - United Kingdom
KW - Canada
KW - contractors
KW - Iraq
KW - Afghanistan
KW - Uganda
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - Military
KW - defence
KW - Budget
KW - labor market policy
KW - conscription
KW - International Law
KW - human rights
KW - industry studies
KW - regulation
KW - security policy
UR - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442260214/Private-Military-and-Security-Contractors-Controlling-the-Corporate-Warrior
M3 - Book
SN - 9781442260214
SN - 9781442260221
BT - Private Military and Security Contractors
PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ER -
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