Private Security Contractors and New Wars - Risk, Law and Ethics

Zusatztext "Carmola's discussion of the "risk culture" within which PMSCs operate is particularly insightful! as is the analysis of their origins! namely as a means to bypass the strict rules of military conduct among Western states when those states are in armed conflict with non-Western nonstate actors." - CHOICE! March 2011"A valuable contribution to the growing literature on PMSCs." - Kathleen M. Jennings! International Peacekeeping! Vol 19! 1! January 2012 Informationen zum Autor Kateri Carmola is the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College in Vermont. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding 'service' industry will have to be adjusted. Zusammenfassung This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding ‘service’ industry will have to be adjusted. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Complex Identity of the PMSC 2. The Multifaceted Origins of the PMSC Industry 3. Contracting and Danger in the Risk Society 4. PMSCs and the Clash of Legal Cultures 5. Frontier Ethics Epilogue: Recommendations

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kateri Carmola, Kateri (Middlebury College Carmola, Carmola Kateri
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.02.2010
• EAN: 9780415771719
• ISBN: 978-0-415-77171-9
• Seiten: 208
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 243 mm x 15 mm
• Serien: Contemporary Security Studies; Contemporary Security Studies
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Warfare & defence, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Intelligence & reasoning, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Armed Conflict