States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security

Informationen zum Autor Elke Krahmann is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include New Threats and New Actors in International Security (2005) and Multilevel Networks in European Foreign Policy (2003). Klappentext Examines the changing roles of the state! the citizen and the soldier! and the consequences for national and international security. Zusammenfassung Elke Krahmann examines the changing roles of the state! the citizen and the soldier. She focuses on national differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies! and the specific consequences of these differences for the democratic control over the legitimate use of armed force. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Lists of figures and tables; 1. Introduction; 2. The state monopoly on violence and the democratic control over military force; 3. The transformation of the state and the soldier; 4. United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security; 5. United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier; 6. Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription; 7. Iraq and beyond: contractors in deployed operations; 8. The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?; 9. Conclusion; Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Elke Krahmann, Elke (Brunel University) Krahmann, Krahmann Elke
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521110198
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11019-8
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Military tactics, Military and defence strategy, Special and elite forces, International Organisations & Institutions