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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459708003321

Autore

Krahmann Elke

Titolo

States, citizens and the privatization of security / / Elke Krahmann [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-107-20255-8

1-139-03573-8

1-283-05387-X

9786613053879

1-139-04119-3

1-139-04272-6

1-139-04196-7

1-139-04459-1

1-139-03805-2

1-139-04041-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

355.3/54

Soggetti

National security

Security, International

Contracting out

Private military companies

State, The

Civil-military relations

Democracy

Great Britain Military policy

United States Military policy

Germany Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

State monopoly on collective violence and democratic control over military force -- The transformation of the state and the soldier -- United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security --



United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier -- Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription -- Iraq and beyond: contractors in deployed operations -- The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?

Sommario/riassunto

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 US and Germany. She focuses on both the national differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies and their specific consequences for the 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 the privatized and fragmented security governance, and the different national attitudes to the privatization of force.