Essays about: "Private Military and Security Companies"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the words Private Military and Security Companies.

  1. 11. A legal minefield created by battlefield contractors - The status, role and accountability of private security and military service companies in conflict and post-conflict areas

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Cajsa Knutsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Public international law; folkrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Den privata säkerhets- och militärbranschen (nedan PSC-branschen) har fått ett starkt uppsving sedan början av 1990-talet. Företag inom denna bransch utför ett antal tjänster, av vilka vissa berör aktiviteter som regleras av internationell humanitär rätt, mänskliga rättigheter och internationell straffrätt. READ MORE

  3. 12. Coalition of the Hired : Privatizing Peacekeeping in Africa, a Different Solultion?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Oscar Andersson; [2011]
    Keywords : PMC; Sierra Leone; Executive Outcomes; Peacekeeping solutions; Private Military Corporations; Efficiency Comparison; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In Sierra Leone, civil war has affected the civilian population and the development of the country for long periods of time. In order to end the violence a number of military operations were conducted. This essay, dealing with internal and external regulatory instruments is used to put a case study of two operations in a larger context. READ MORE

  4. 13. Privatizing an Uncontested Public Good - The Rise of Transnational Corporate Military Service Provision

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Pierre Nikolov; [2009]
    Keywords : Market for Force; Institution; Public Good; Private Good; Path Dependence; New Institutional Economics; Executive Outcomes; MPRI; Blackwater; KBR; Private Contractor; Private Security Company; Private Military Company; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The provision of military and armed security services typically is the monopoly domain of the state. With the end of the Cold War legitimate private firms, however, expanded as worldwide providers of military and security services. READ MORE

  5. 14. Private Military Companies and the Effect on the Control of Force in the Developing World

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Magnus Andersson; [2006]
    Keywords : Civil-Military Relations; Mercenary; Private Military; Control of Force; Private Security; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : With the privatisation of war and the increasing importance of non-state actors in conflict, the need to study their effects on governments is increasing. This thesis? purpose is to analyse the effects on the government's control of force in the developing world, when contracting a Private Military Company (PMC). READ MORE