Book

Private military and security companies : ethics, policies and civil-military relations

ed. by Andrew Alexandra, Deane-Peter Baker and Marina Caparini

London [etc.] : Routledge, 2008

XIII, 274 p. ; 24 cm

978-0-415-43275-7

English

Bibliographie : p. 266-267. Index

Over the past twenty years, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have become significant elements of national security arrangements, assuming many of the functions that have traditionally been undertaken by state armies. Given the centrality of control over the use of coercive force to the functioning and identity of the modern state, and to international order, these developments clearly are of great practical and conceptual interest.This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary overview of PMSCs: what they are, why they have emerged in their current form, how they operate, their current and likely future military, political, social and economic impact, and the moral and legal constraints that do and should apply to their operation.