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The Outsourcing of Public Services and Its Limits
Simon Chesterman, Angelina Fisher
£85.00
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From Mercenaries to Market
The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies
Edited by Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt
320 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-922848-5
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Hardback
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12 July 2007
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- Contributors include a range of key providers, consumers, regulators, and opinion-makers, including writers who have worked closely with the industry and bring key insights into both the theory and the practice of PMCs
- Timely examination of the recent proliferation of PMCs, and their current prominence following scandals in Iraq
- Relevant for governments as they begin to formulate their policy responses to PMCs
- Specific focus on regulation of this new industry
Frequently characterized as either mercenaries in modern guise or the market's response to a security vacuum, private military companies are commercial firms offering military services ranging from combat and military training and advice to logistical support, and which play an increasingly important role in armed conflicts, UN peace operations, and providing security in unstable states.
Executive Outcomes turned around an orphaned conflict in Sierra Leone in the mid-1990s; Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI) was instrumental in shifting the balance of power in the Balkans, enabling the Croatian military to defeat Serb forces
and clear the way for the Dayton negotiations; in Iraq, estimates of the number of private contractors on the ground are in the tens of thousands. As they assume more responsibilities in conflict and post-conflict settings, their growing significance raises fundamental questions about their nature, their role in different regions and contexts, and their regulation.
This volume examines these issues with a focus on governance, in particular the interaction between regulation and market forces. It analyzes the current legal framework and the needs and possibilities for regulation in the years ahead. The book as a whole is organized around four sets of questions, which are reflected in the four parts of the book. First, why and how is regulation of PMCs now a
challenging issue? Secondly, how have problems leading to a call for regulation manifested in different regions and contexts? Third, what regulatory norms and institutions currently exist and how effective are they? And, fourth, what role has the market to play in regulation?Readership: Academics, scholars, and advanced students of public international law, armed conflict and the laws of war, peace studies, UN law, international relations, and politics
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Edited by Simon Chesterman, Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme, and an Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, and Chia Lehnardt, Doctoral candidate, at Humboldt University, Berlin Contributors:
James Jonah
Simon Chesterman, Chia Lehnardt
Sarah Percy
Kevin O'Brian
Angela McIntyre & Taya Weiss
David Isenberg
Elke Krahmann
Louise Doswald-Beck
Chia Lehnardt
Marina Caparini
Deborah Avant
James Cockayne
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"As a resource, From Mercenaries to Market serves only as a starting point, but a very good one. At only 256 pages, and covering many different topics relating to PMCs, it is impressive that the contributors provide so much useful analysis and information. Every contribution is well cited, and chapters are complimented by a select bibliography that makes taking the next step easy for inquisitive readers" - Alex M. Feldman, Journal of International Law and Politics "Despite some critical remarks, both books offer interesting and serious scholarship about a very difficult and controversial topic. In addition, both books offer some fresh angles and even new topics that are not usually examined in the PMC discourse" -
Erkki Holmila, Finnish Yearbook of International Law
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James Jonah: Foreword
Simon Chesterman, Chia Lehnardt: Introduction
I Concerns
1: Sarah Percy: Morality and Regulation
2: Kevin O'Brian: What should and what should not be regulated?
II Challenges
3: Angela McIntyre & Taya Weiss: Weak governments in search of strength: Africa's experience of mercenaries and private military companies
4: David Isenberg: A government in search of cover: private military companies in Iraq
5: Elke Krahmann: Transitional states in search of support: PMCs and security sector reform
III Norms
6: Louise Doswald-Beck: Private military companies under international humanitarian law
7: Chia Lehnardt: Private military companies and state responsibility
8: Marina Caparini: Domestic regulation: licensing regimes for the export of military goods and services
IV Markets
9: Deborah Avant: The emerging market for private military services and the problems of regulation
10: James Cockayne: Make or buy? Principal-agent theory and the regulation of private military companies
11: Laura Dickinson: Contract as a tool for regulating private military companies
12: Anna Leander: Regulating the role of private military companies in shaping security and politics
13: Andrew Bearpark & Sabrina Schulz: The future of the market
14: Simon Chesterman, Chia Lehnardt: Conclusion: From mercenaries to market
Bibliography
Index
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http://www.nytimes.com/ - Read an article written by Simon Chesterman, 'Blackwater and the Limits to Outsourcing Security', in The New York Times, November 2009
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