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”In a perfect world we don’t need them or want them – but the world isn’t perfect” : the United Nations and the private arms [PDF]
, 2015 Tutkielma on temaattisesti kiinnostunut erityisesti 1990-luvulla räjähdysmäisesti kasvaneista yksityisistä sotilas –ja turvallisuusalan yrityksistä. Työn tarkoituksena on avata näiden yritysten sekä Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien (YK) välistä yhteyttä sekä ...
Sassi, Johanna
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The mercenaries of Hellenistic Crete [PDF]
, 2020 This dissertation presents a new portrait of mercenaries as they pertain to the island of Crete during the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE). Mercenaries ought to be contextualized among the diplomatic strategies by which Greek cities sought to remain ...
Craven, Stephanie Pamela
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Bulgarians’ Motivation for Participation in Private Military Companies [PDF]
Bulgarian Journal of International Economics and Politics, 2023 Private military companies are becoming increasingly popular; their manpower is higher than the manpower of some national armies. Nevertheless, they still exist in the shadows and are often called “shadow armies”.
Hristo Tutunarov
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PRIVATIZATION OF SECURITY IN THE 20TH CENTURY. FROM MERCENARIES TO PRIVATE MILITARY CORPORATIONS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Studia Europaea, 2018 The present paper aims to emphasize the context of the privatization of security in the 20th century and to show the differences between these newly created corporations and the old mercenaries.
Ramona Ioana GOGA
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Szlachetni, odważni, dzicy? Obraz Waregów i Franków w oczach Bizantyńczyków w X-XI w.
Vox Patrum, 2018 During Xth and XIth century the Byzantine Empire was one of the strongest states in the Levant. In mentioned period the emperors undertook numerous military campaigns, both in order to expand the borders of the empire and restitute their authority on ...
Szymon Wierzbiński
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Alkaios on the role of Mytilenian aristocracy in the economic life during stasis
RUDN Journal of World History, 2021 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evidence concerning different activities of aristocracy and if possible to define its role in the economic life during a very specific period in the history of archaic Mytilene, i.e. stasis.
Yelena Ivanovna Solomatina
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Studia Historica Brunensia, 2020 The arbitration proceedings that took place in 1482 represent the lowest point in the relationships between Frederick III and two of his most important mercenary captains at the time.
Petra Heinicker
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Studia Historica Brunensia, 2020 The present paper uses two case studies to scrutinize the many different documents emanating from the administrative needs of late medieval mercenaries and their employers.
Petr Elbel
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Mercenaries reloaded? Applicability of the Notion of ‘Mercenaries’ in Relation to Private Military Companies and their Employees [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of this study is to present the notion of mercenaries laid down in literature and in international law, as its applicability to private military companies and their employees so. The first chapter examines the use of the notion of mercenaries
Kálmán, János, János Kálmán
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Governmental Combat of Migration Between Competing Terrorist Organisations
Operations Research and Decisions, 2020 Each terrorist organisation is modelled with four coupled differential time equations for the evolution of ideologues, criminal mercenaries, captive participants, and capital sponsoring.
Kjell Hausken
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