States, citizens and the privatization of security / Elke Krahmann
- Bib ID:
- 4803926
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Krahmann, Elke
- Description:
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- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
- xi, 305 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780521110198
- 052111019X
- 9780521125192
- 0521125197
- Summary:
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"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 USA and Germany. She focuses on the national differences both with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies and their specific consequences for 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 privatized and fragmented security governance, and the different national attitudes to the privatization of force."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. The state monopoly on collective violence and 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 on deployed operations
- 8. The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?
- 9. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-301) and index.
- Subject:
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- National security -- Case studies
- Security, International -- Case studies
- Contracting out -- Case studies
- Private military companies -- Case studies
- State, The -- Case studies
- Civil-military relations -- Case studies
- Democracy -- Case studies
- Great Britain -- Military policy
- United States -- Military policy
- Germany -- Military policy
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2010
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