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Revisiting the Role of Private Military and Security Companies

Criminal Justice Ethics, 2012
Abstract This essay addresses the role of private military and security companies (PMSCs) in security governance. In this context, it offers a historical overview of some of the main developments in the evolution of private warfare and critically discusses some of the key challenges confronting the quest for holding PMSCs accountable in accordance with
George Andreopoulos, Shawna Brandle
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Regulating Private Military and Security Companies

2014
This chapter deals with a topical subject, namely the issue of regulating private military and security companies (PMSCs). There are three ways of regulating PMSCs- through international norms, self-regulation and national norms. The chapter begins by sketching out the legal problems involved in drafting a treaty to regulate PMSCs.
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Private Military and Security Companies

This bibliography discusses the scholarship on private security. As many academics have observed over the past thirty years, mercenaries and private military and security companies (PMSCs) have become increasingly visible and important actors in the post–Cold War period.
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Private Military and Security Companies in UN Missions

Peace Review, 2014
Nowadays individuals have a leading role in global politics. Among its most visible consequences the concepts of human security and the securitization of development emerge.
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Private Military and Security Companies in Maritime Security Governance

2013
While various maritime facilities in different parts of the world have been protected by private armed guards for some time, the privatization of maritime security has only recently received international attention. This attention has been prompted by the increasing employment of heavily armed private guards to protect vessels passing through the ...
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Policy Prospects for Regulating Private Military and Security Companies

2011
Published version of EUI AEL WP 2009 ...
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Private Military and Security Companies and Human Rights

2017
This chapter addresses the question of whether there are gaps in international human rights law in relation to the activities of PMSCs. To that end, it first examines the grounds of attribution of unlawful acts to states under human rights treaties, which are generally those of general international law.
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NATO, Russia and Private Military and Security Companies

The RUSI Journal, 2018
In this article, Christopher Spearin examines Russian private military and security companies (PMSCs) operating in the so-called ‘grey zone’ and highlights their offensive character.
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The regulation of private military and security companies: Analyzing power in multi-stakeholder initiatives

Contemporary Security Policy, 2021
Berenike Prem
exaly  

The Anti-Mercenary Norm and United Nations’ Use of Private Military and Security Companies: From Norm Entrepreneurship to Organized Hypocrisy

International Peacekeeping, 2021
Oldrich Bureš, Eugenio Cusumano
exaly