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Addressing the use of private security and military companies [PMSCS] at the international level

, 2009
Involvement of private military/security companies (PMSCs) in African conflicts has had a significant bearing on both International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL). The paper contributes to the debate regarding the use of
Gumedze, Sabelo
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Private Security and Military Companies in the African Continent: "A Study on the Justifications for Presence and Areas of Concentration

مجلة العلوم و آفاق المعارف
The complex security conditions experienced by African countries during the colonial period and after independence, have led to an urgent need for new mechanisms to address gaps that local armies and security institutions have failed to manage.
Fahim Remli , Rafik Boubchiche
doaj   +1 more source

From armed roots to airline routes in South America: A dual imprinting perspective

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Reserch Summary We propose that founding partner relationships can leave distinct imprints on organizations that differ in durability and in how they respond to subsequent changes involving the founding partner. Examining South American airlines founded between 1919 and 1984, we argue and find that such relationships simultaneously create an ...
Kunyuan Qiao, Shon R. Hiatt, Wesley D. Sine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Privatising security and war

Forced Migration Review, 2011
State security functions normally carried out by national armies or police forces are being outsourced to private military and security companies in countries where conflict is displacing many people....
José L Gómez del Prado
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Outsourcing intelligence: The relationship between the state and Private intelligence in post apartheid South Africa

, 2010
The state claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of force. This is not to suggest however that the state cannot and does not outsource the practical exercise of force. On the contrary, the outsourcing of a wide range of military and security roles and
Butt, Stephen
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Involvement of Private Military and Security Companies in the Armed Conflict in Ukraine

EIRP Proceedings, 2021
This article examines the legal challenges regarding the interpretation of the applicable national legislation on military operations in Ukraine, as well as the legal concerns and discrepancies regarding the classification of the activity of private ...
Cauia Alexandr Victor, Zacon Corina
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The legitimacy of the military, private military and security companies, and just war theory

European Journal of Political Theory, 2011
The legitimacy of the military is frequently overlooked in standard accounts of jus ad bellum. Accordingly, this paper considers how the military should be organized. It proposes a normative conception of legitimacy – the ‘Moderate Instrumentalist Approach’ – that outlines the qualities that a military should possess. It then assesses the three leading
openaire   +3 more sources

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source