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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 Contractors and Security Companies

2015
Abstract This chapter discusses the rules governing the use of private contractors and security companies. Private contractors should not be employed in combat functions or engage in direct participation in hostilities in the context of an armed conflict. Such participation would entail the loss of civilian protection and could result in
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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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Private security companies and the European borderscapes

2013
This chapter examines the implications of the increasing involvement of private security companies (PSCs) on the formulation and practices of European immigration and border control. The rise of private involvement in border control can be seen as a subset of the migration industry, alongside, and sometimes interacting with, other subsets like ...
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Private Maritime Security Companies: Privatizing Ocean Security

2011
Private Maritime Security Companies: Privatizing Ocean ...
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Private Security Companies and Private Transnational Transfers

2012
The US intervention in Iraq, and its subsequent efforts to stabilize and reconstruct that country, brought attention to the phenomenon of private military and security companies (PSCs). For the general public, perceptions of PSCs were shaped by a few significant events: the killing of four security contractors employed by Blackwater USA in Fallujah on ...
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Private Security Companies

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022
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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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Mapping Private Security - The Companies and the Industry

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
This study arose from a project funded by the London Development Agency Secondment into Knowledge Programme, which tested the ideas that path dependence and lock in were affecting a firm's relationships with their buyers (a private security guarding firm and a local authority).
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Private security companies in Iraq and beyond

International Affairs, 2011
The numerical and functional prominence of armed and unarmed contractors on deployed operations has attracted analysis from a range of perspectives, as this collection of works illustrates. In addition to studies which seek to explain the growth in private security contractors' activities in terms of governmental needs, the books examined here consider
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