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This book examines the debate over private security contractors, using historical and contemporary cases, including several non-Western examples.
List of contents
Introduction 1. Mercenaries and Neomedievalism: From History to Historicity 2. Private Military Corporations and Military Contractors in the Chola Empire: Circa 800-Circa 1200 CE 3. Mercenaries in 14th-Century Europe: Crack troops or 'useless and dangerous'?
4. How Britain Socially Constructed Mercenaries: The Case of German Soldiers in British Service during the American War of Independence
5. The Market for Force in the United Arab Emirates's Network-centric Statecraft
6. Wagner Goes South: Russian Private Military Contractors in North Africa and the Sahel
7. Private Security in Colombia: The stabilisation of Medellin
8. China's Emerging Private Security Companies: Development, challenges, and future prospects
9. Varieties of Maritime Private Security: Commercial vessel protection off the Horn of Africa and in the Gulf of Guinea
10. Private Military Companies: Low-cost tools for power and status?
11. International Volunteers in the Ukraine War: Macro-level scripts and micro-level motivations
12. Representations of Soldiers of Fortune in Mexico and the Congo in American and European Cinema
13. Future Warfare between Privatization and Automation
14. Private Warriors for the Digital Age? The demand and supply of cybersecurity firms
15. Private Force in Africa: Reassessing regulatory frameworks and advocating for an African-centric approach to PMSCs
Conclusion
About the author
Eugenio Cusumano is Professor of Politics at the University of Messina, Italy. He is the author/editor of several books, including
Piracy and the Privatisation of Maritime Security (with Stefano Ruzza, 2020) and
Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization (2023).
Christopher Kinsey is Professor of International Security at King's College, London. He is the author/editor of several books including
Contractors and War (co-edited with Malcolm Patterson, 2012) and
The Mercenary (2023).
Robert Parr is leading International Security Consultant and a 25-year veteran of UK Special Forces and National Intelligence. He has held a series of executive and senior management appointments within the global security sector, where he has provided consultancies in more than 140 countries worldwide.
Summary
This book examines the debate over private security contractors, using historical and contemporary cases, including several non-Western examples.
