Market for Force The Consequences of Privatizing Security

Name: Market for Force The Consequences of Privatizing Security
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ISBN: 9780521850261

ISBN-10: 0521850266

ISBN-13: 9780521850261

Edition: 2005

Authors: Deborah D. Avant

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The flourishing role of the private sector in security management over the last twenty years has challenged state control of the legitimate use of force. Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers--including states, non-government organizations and commercial transnational corporations. Avant also charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, and suggests a new way to think about the control of force.

Book details

List price: $123.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/4/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.29" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



List of figure and tables


List of acronyms


Acknowledgments



Introduction


Private security and the control of force: the question


Private security and the control of force: the answer


A transnational market for military and security services


Mercenaries, privatization, and other slippery terms


The current market compared


Why the current market?


Plan of the book



Private security and the control of force


Clarifying the control of force


How should privatization affect the control of force?


State contracts for private force


State regulation of private security


Non-state financing and the control of force


Methods and claims



State capacity and contracting for security


Sierra Leone's contracts for military services


Croatia's contracts for military services


US contracts for military services


Comparisons



Dilemmas in state regulation of private security exports


The United States


South Africa


The United Kingdom


Transnational markets and political trade-offs



Private financing for security and the control of force


Transnational corporate financing and the control of force


Humanitarian relief in war zones


Conserving nature in the state of nature


Comparisons



Market mechanisms and the diffusion of control over force


Market mechanisms


Diffusion of control


Institutional innovations


Competing mechanisms, conflict, and change in history


Discussion



Conclusion


Institutional mechanisms and political processes


Globalization, the state, and the sovereign system


Bibliography