States, citizens and the privatization of security /

"Recent years have seen a growing role for private military contractors in national and international security. To understand the reasons for this, Elke Krahmann examines changing models of the state, the citizen, and the soldier in the UK, the US, and Germany. She focuses on both the national...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Krahmann, Elke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Temas:
National security > Case studies.
Security, International > Case studies.
Contracting out > Case studies.
Private military companies > Case studies.
State, The > Case studies.
Civil-military relations > Case studies.
Democracy > Case studies.
Impartition > Études de cas.
Sociétés militaires privées > Études de cas.
État > Études de cas.
Relations pouvoir civil-pouvoir militaire > Études de cas.
HISTORY > Military > Biological & Chemical Warfare.
Civil-military relations
Contracting out
Democracy
Military policy
National security
Private military companies
Security, International
State, The
Privates Militärunternehmen
Zivil-militärische Zusammenarbeit
Internationaler Vergleich
Militär
Outsourcing
Bewaffneter Konflikt
Neoliberalismus
Republikanismus
Privatisierung > Militär.
Militär > Privatisierung.
Krieg > Demokratie.
Demokratie > Krieg.
Great Britain > Military policy.
United States > Military policy.
Germany > Military policy.
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Case studies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • State monopoly on collective violence and democratic control over military force
  • The transformation of the state and the soldier
  • United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security
  • United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier
  • Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription
  • Iraq and beyond: contractors in deployed operations
  • The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?

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