The Governance of Private Security

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Swiss Initiative.- 3. The United Nations as Actor of Governance.- 4. Testing PMSC Norms.- 5. Designing Institutions: The Role of the State in Voluntary Regulation.- 6. Contestation or Accomodation.- 7. Nigeria's Engagement.- 8. State and Non-State Choices in Liberia.- 9. Sierra Leone: Continuity and Change.- 10. Ideas and Interests in Africa.- 11. Conclusions.

About the author

Marco Boggero teaches global policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Marco Boggero
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783319888071
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988807-1
• No. of pages: 199
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 211 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 302 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 199 p. 12 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Peace, Conflict Studies, Political Science, International Relations, Political structure & processes, Political Science and International Studies, Political Economy, Public Safety, Crime & criminology, International Political Economy, Peace studies & conflict resolution, International Security Studies, Security, International, Governance and Government, International humanitarian law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Crime Control and Security, Public international law: humanitarian law