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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300483703321

Autore

Boggero Marco

Titolo

The Governance of Private Security / / by Marco Boggero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319695938

3319695932

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs

Disciplina

363.289

Soggetti

Security, International

Political science

Peace

International economic relations

Criminology

Humanitarian law

International Security Studies

Governance and Government

Peace and Conflict Studies

International Political Economy'

Crime Control and Security

International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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