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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Acronyms; 1 Introduction; 2 The state monopoly on collective violence and democratic control over military force; 3 The transformation of the state and the soldier; 4 United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security; 5 United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier; 6 Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription; 7 Iraq and beyond: contractors on deployed operations; 8 The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?; 9 Conclusion.