Private security contractors and new wars : risk, law, and ethics / / Kateri Carmola

• Autore: Carmola Kateri
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.3/5
• Soggetto topico: Private military companies; Private security services
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The complex identity of the PMSC; 2 The multifaceted origins of the PMSC industry; 3 Contracting and danger in the risk society; 4 PMSCs and the clash of legal cultures; 5 Frontier ethics with a cosmopolitan goal; Epilogue: Problems and solutions; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding 'service' industry will have to be adjusted.In the warzones of Iraq and Afghanistan many of those who carry weapons are not legally combatants, nor are they protected civilians. They are contracted by governments, businesses, and NGOs to provide armed security. Often mistaken as members of armed forces, they are instead part of a new protean proxy force that works alongside the military in a multitude of shiftin
• Titolo autorizzato: Private security contractors and new wars
• ISBN: 1-135-15328-0; 1-282-57026-9; 9786612570261; 0-203-85689-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457341403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary security studies.