States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-11019-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krahmann, Elke

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Verwaltung, Streitkräfte (Militärwesen)
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Friedenssicherung, Krisenintervention

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Acronyms; Lists of figures and tables;
1. Introduction;
2. The state monopoly on violence and the 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 in deployed operations;
8. The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?;
9. Conclusion; Selected bibliography;
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Krahmann, Elke
Elke Krahmann is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include New Threats and New Actors in International Security (2005) and Multilevel Networks in European Foreign Policy (2003).