Overview
- Addresses the increased use of contractors in conflict and post-conflict zones
- Explains the logic of regulation processes in several areas of global governance, from surveillance to humanitarian intervention
- Offers advice based on several years of academic work, advocacy and personal engagement by the author, a former member of Médecins Sans Frontières and Navy Officer
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ideas, Interests, and Institutions
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China’s negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria’s first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa. The author engages with concepts and theories from IR, Political Economy, and African studies—like regime, forum shopping, and extraversion—to describe what shapes state choices in national and international fora. The volume clarifies and spells out the needed questions and definitions and proposes a synthesis of how regime formation is shaped by ideas, interests, and institutions, starting from the proposition that regulatory cooperation consists in facilitating the acceptance and use of a single identifier for private military and security companies.
Reviews
“The book makes an important contribution to our understanding the evolving and contested norm regarding reliance and governance of PMSCs. Inclusion of critical understudied cases in Africa is particularly important due to the tensions they illustrate between the historical sensitivity to mercenariesand current security challenges confronting weak states.” (Renée de Nevers, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Governance of Private Security
Authors: Marco Boggero
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69593-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69592-1Published: 23 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88807-1Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69593-8Published: 15 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 199
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Security Studies, Governance and Government, Conflict Studies, International Political Economy, Crime Control and Security, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict