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A Study on Political Feasibility for The Introduction of Private Military Companies: Focusing on Combat Training

The Korean Society of Private Security, 2023
The reason military organizations exist is to win wars. In general, in most countries around the world, military organizations are the most powerful organizations.
Guk-In Dong, Tae-yeon Hwang
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Russia’s Corporate Soldiers: The Global Expansion of Russia’s Private Military Companies

South African Journal of International Affairs, 2022
power expansion one should look within Russia at the relationship between the state and society. Great power politics may be less important than the domestic pressures experienced by a corrupt and highly personalised regime.
Karen Philippa Larsen
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Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap?

Small Wars & Insurgencies, 2021
In a situation where the Russian national self-image and economic realities fail to add up, this article discusses whether Russian private military companies have become low-cost tools to restore Russian great power status.
Åse Gilje Østensen, T. Bukkvoll
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Russian Surrogate Warfare in Ukraine and Syria: Understanding the Utility of Militias and Private Military Companies

, 2021
Russia has traditionally maintained a large army to defend its borders. Now there is evidence that the Kremlin has utilized proxy militias and private military companies to launch operations abroad.
Emmanuel Karagiannis
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Private military and security companies and human rights abuses: The impact of CEOs’ military background

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2023
This study examines how military background of chief executive officers (CEOs) of private military and security companies (PMSCs) that intervened in Iraq from 2003 to 2019 affected the frequency with which companies committed human rights abuses.
Elizabeth Radziszewski
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Public Attitudes toward Private Military Companies: Insights from Principal–agent Theory

Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2018
This article examines the distribution and correlates of mass attitudes toward the privatization of US military operations. Relying on insights from principal–agent theory, we form predictions about what beliefs are associated with a willingness to grant
Mark D. Ramirez, Reed M. Wood
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Private military companies: problems and prospects of legal regulation in Russian Federation

Current Issues of the State and Law, 2019
In today’s world in a market economy condition and a complex geopolitical situation quite actively began to develop private military companies. However, the activity of these companies is a very urgent problem of legislative consolidation.
Sergey Vladimirovich Shishmonin
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Private Military and Security Companies and the European Union as an Enmeshed Security and Defence Actor

Journal of Common Market Studies
This article argues that extensive use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) makes the European Union (EU) an enmeshed security and defence actor.
Jozef Bátora, Kamila Koníková
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Selling security to Africa: private military and security companies (PMSCs) and the fate of African intrastate security

Small Wars & Insurgencies
The increasing demand for privatised security has rekindled significant attention to private military and security companies (PMSCs) in international relations and security discourse.
Thomas Ameyaw-Brobbey, Vladimir Antwi-Danso   +1 more
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International Legal Status of Private Military Companies

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020
A. Manoilo, A. Zaytsev
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