The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security

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Cambridge University Press, 25. srp 2005.
The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers – including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.
 

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Introduction
1
the question
3
the answer
5
A transnational market for military and security services
7
Mercenaries privatization and other slippery terms
22
The current market compared
26
Why the current market?
30
Plan of the book
38
The United States
146
South Africa
157
The United Kingdom
167
Transnational markets and political tradeoffs
175
Private financing for security and the control of force
178
Transnational corporate financing and the control of force
180
Humanitarian relief in war zones
192
Conserving nature in the state of nature
204

Private security and the control of force
40
How should privatization affect the control of force?
45
State contracts for private force
57
State regulation of private security
65
Nonstate financing and the control of force
70
Methods and claims
77
State capacity and contracting for security
81
Sierra Leones contracts for military services
82
Croatias contracts for military services
98
US contracts for military services
113
Comparisons
138
Dilemmas in state regulation of private security exports
143
Comparison
215
Market mechanisms and diffusion of control over force
219
Diffusion of control
228
Institutional innovations
240
Competing mechanisms conflict and change in history
245
Discussion
251
Conclusion
253
Institutional mechanisms and political processes
254
Globalization the state and the sovereign system
257
Bibliography
265
Index
302
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Stranica 1 - Today, however, we have to say that a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory.

O autoru (2005)

Deborah D. Avant is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Global and International Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. She is the author of Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons From Peripheral Wars (1994) and of numerous articles.

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