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“Feminist Suffering” and “Aftermath Solidarity”: Repairing Female Solidarity in the Wake of a Friendship's Fall

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In my experience, the end of a female friendship came to symbolically represent the erosion of female solidarity as (I thought) I knew it. In this paper, I first present an evocative autoethnographic narrative that foregrounds the emotional toll of losing solidarity with a close childhood friend.
Daniela Aliberti
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Private Military and Security Companies

2017
After the Cold War, changes in demand and supply of armed forces created a gap in the security market. At the same time, a transformation of warfare and technological developments enabled small groups to obtain large, destructive weapons. These two developments, in combination with positive associations with privatization in other areas, facilitated ...
Celline Cole, Resy Vermeltfoort
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Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies

Choice Reviews Online, 2014
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Private Military and Security Companies

2010
While early private military and security companies (PMSCs) were likened to mercenaries, today most scholars agree that PMSCs constitute a new phenomenon. They are organized as legitimate corporate entities, have a distinct legal status, and provide a wide range of military and security services.
Berenike Prem, Elke Krahmann
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The concept of private military companies as a military-political institution

Социально-гуманитарные знания, 2023
В статье анализируется понятие частных военных компаний в контексте их функционирования в рамках военно-политической среды. При помощи аналитического метода и метода системного анализа рассмотрены основные аспекты в развитии институциональной составляющей ЧВК. В качестве важнейших причин подобного процесса обозначены и детализированы такие факторы, как
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Women and Private Military and Security Companies

2011
assault; 1 or have been civilian victims of private contractors operating forced prostitution rings. 2 Armed conflict, belligerent occupation, and civil strife are by definition necessarily violent for all participants, be they civilians, combatants, or PMSC employees.
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Private military and security companies

2018
Private military and security companies (PMSCs) and contractors raise quintessential issues of global governance—they have become both subjects and objects of administration as international organizations endeavor to regulate them. This chapter explores the peculiar form of market-based violence, explaining what it is and how it is governed.
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National Regulation of Private Military Companies

2009
Acknowledging the utility of PMCs to states in this age of privatization, the increasing reliance placed on PMCs by states as they strive to maintain an adequate defense capacity and the simple fact of their existence, states stand in a difficult and conflicted situation vis-a-vis the PMC industry. While it is often expedient for a state to condemn the
Benedict Sheehy, Jackson Maogoto, Virginia Newell   +2 more
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Private military companies: options for regulation

Conflict, Security & Development, 2002
(2002). Private military companies: options for regulation. Conflict, Security & Development: Vol. 2, No. 03, pp. 127-137.
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Private Military Companies as ‘Epistemic Communities’

Civil Wars, 2006
The role of the private military company (PMC) remains one of the more controversial aspects of security studies. For many, they represent little more than corporate ‘dogs of war’, beneficiaries of misplaced munificence from donor countries unable or unwilling to intervene in failed states directly or in areas where the challenge of post-war ...
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