States, citizens and the privatisation of security [electronic resource] / Elke Krahmann.
2010
UA10.5 .K73 2010eb
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Title
States, citizens and the privatisation of security [electronic resource] / Elke Krahmann.
Author
Krahmann, Elke.
ISBN
9780521110198 hardcover
9780521125192 paperback
9781139044592 electronic book
9780521125192 paperback
9781139044592 electronic book
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 305 p.) : ill.
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UA10.5 .K73 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
355.3/54
Summary
"Recent years have seen a growing role for private military contractors in national and international security. To understand the reasons for this, Elke Krahmann examines changing models of the state, the citizen, and the soldier in the UK, the US, and Germany. She focuses on both the national differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies and their specific consequences for the democratic control over the legitimate use of armed force. Tracing developments and debates from the late eighteenth century to the present, she explains the transition from the centralized warfare state of the Cold War era to the privatized and fragmented security governance, and the different national attitudes to the privatization of force. Details three country case studies, providing evidence for the key issues raised within the text. Each chapter includes a summary table to aid comparison between case studies and allow for easy reference. Provides proposals for the reform of civil-military relations"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The state monopoly on violence and the democratic control over military force
The transformation of the state and the soldier
United Kingdom : private financing and the management of security
United States : shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier
Germany : between public-private partnerships and conscription
Iraq and beyond : contractors in deployed operations
The future of democratic security : contractorization or cosmopolitanism?.
The transformation of the state and the soldier
United Kingdom : private financing and the management of security
United States : shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier
Germany : between public-private partnerships and conscription
Iraq and beyond : contractors in deployed operations
The future of democratic security : contractorization or cosmopolitanism?.