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Private Security Companies and Civil Wars
Civil Wars, 2009 Private security companies (PSCs) have experienced explosive growth since 2001, growth that has been matched only by the consequent explosion in academic attention probing their influence. It is not hard to discover that PSCs and their employees constituted the second-largest member of the US-led Coalition of the Willing during the invasion of Iraq in ...
Percy, Sarah
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Private Security Companies in the Czech Republic: An Exploratory Analysis [PDF]
Central European Journal of International & Security Studies, 2012 Czech private security companies have thus far received relatively little attention both internationally and, until recently, domestically. This article attempts to fill this gap by analysing the key characteristics of the market with more than 6,000 ...
Oldřich Bureš
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Private Security Companies in the DRC
, 2021 Private Security Companies in the ...
Si Ramdane, Lidia
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Private military and security companies, territoriality and the transformation of western security governance [PDF]
, 2012 The field of security governance holds a special place within the context of the debate over the diffusion of power from state to non-state actors, from national to international authorities and from governments to markets in Western democracies.
Elke Krahmann, Krahmann, E
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Security: Collective good or commodity? [PDF]
, 2008 This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2008 Sage.The state monopoly on the legitimate use of violence in Europe and North America has been central to the development of security
Elke Krahmann, Krahmann, E
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Espaço Jurídico, 2016 : This paper is devoted to the growing phenomenon of the private military and security industry with respect to human rights obligations. In the first part, it will analyze the concept of a private security company, which is not clear in national ...
Elzbieta Karska
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Law and Safety, 2019 The author of the article has studied the reasons for introducing a control mechanism over the activities of private security companies, which play an increasingly important role in the security sector worldwide.
M. V. Zavalnyi
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The Development of Private Security and the Dilemmas Surrounding the Effects of Private Security Services [PDF]
Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2016 Despite the fact that private security services are not a new phenomenon, the increasing trend in the development of private security is linked to the 1990s when the number of private security service providers saw a manifold increase.
Zorica Saltirovska
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Private military and security companies’ logos : between camouflaging and corporate socialization [PDF]
, 2020 First published online: 18 June 2020International relations scholarship has paid insufficient attention to security providers’ tendency to emulate the visual attributes of other actors in an attempt to (re)construct their identities and increase their ...
CUSUMANO, Eugenio, Cusumano, E.
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Outer Space and Private Companies
Politeja, 2017 The paper focuses on sectors, methods, and spheres of the space activity of private companies, to provide empirical analysis of space applications and implications for global security.
Paweł Frankowski
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