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Internationalizing and Privatizing War and Peace

The Bumpy Ride to Peace Building

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  • © 2005

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  1. Herbert Wulf
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: New Wars and the Bumpy Ride to Peace Building

    1. Introduction: New Wars and the Bumpy Ride to Peace Building

      • Herbert Wulf
      Pages 1-15

  4. International Interventions and Privatizing Military Functions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. With the Highest Authority: UN-Peacekeeping Missions

      • Herbert Wulf
      Pages 67-85

    3. South Africa: From Pariah to Regional Cop

      • Herbert Wulf
      Pages 86-102

    4. European Union: Civil Power in Camouflage

      • Herbert Wulf
      Pages 103-129

    5. Co-operation, Competition and Collateral Damage in Humanitarian Interventions

      • Herbert Wulf
      Pages 130-148

    6. Countering Terrorism Through Military Means?

      • Herbert Wulf
      Pages 149-168

    7. Rent-a-Soldier: Privatization in the US and UK Armed Forces

      • Herbert Wulf
      Pages 169-194

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 215-263
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In this timely work, the author analyzes the use of private military firms and international interventions of the military. Outsourcing to the private sector takes missions away from the military, but the shift towards international intervention adds new, wider functions to the traditional role of defence. If these two trends continue at the present pace, important security functions will be out of control of parliaments, national governments and international authorities. The state monopoly of violence - an achievement of civilization - is at stake.

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'This is a fascinating book that brings the reader face to face with the changed security challenge in the post Cold War, globalizing world.' - Rt Hon Clare Short MP, UK

'At last we have a book about the privatization and internationalization of war that gets beyond the spectacular headlines coming from Iraq to develop a sound explanation and documentation of this rapidly evolving post-Cold War global phenomenon...a readable, thoroughly documented book complete with superb cases, examples and a reasoned set of practical recommendations. It is particularly strong in making us think through the utility of military force in countering terrorism. It will be required reading for all of my students preparing for global public policy careers.' - Edward J Laurance, Professor of International Policy Studies, and Director, Program on Security and Development, Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA

About the author

HERBERT WULF, formerly Director, Bonn International Centre for Conversion, is an advisor to UNDP North Korea on arms control. He served as a consultant to several United Nations Agencies. In his previous research positions, he was Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the University of Hamburg. He wrote several books on the defence industry and his dissertation at the Free University Berlin on technology transfer to developing countries.

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