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  • Mercenaries and Security Contractors in the 21st Century

    The Past and Future of Private Force

    Edited by Eugenio Cusumano, Christopher Kinsey, Robert Parr ...
    Series series Routledge Private Security Studies
    This book examines the debate over private security contractors, using historical and contemporary cases, including several non-Western examples.Since the end of the Cold War, security privatization has grown in its geographical outreach, breadth, and scope. This pervasive expansion of the private military and security market warrants a systematic investigation of commercial actors’ involvement in ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Mercenary

    An Instrument of State Coercion

    by Christopher Kinsey ...
    Ever since the French Revolution and the rise of the rise of national armies, the mercenary has been viewed as a maligned and marginalized actor in international relations. The Mercenary challenges this view, suggesting instead that while delegated to the periphery of Great Power politics, the mercenary remained a coercive instrument of state power who was willing to discretely promote the client ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Contractors and War

    The Transformation of United States’ Expeditionary Operations

    Edited by Christopher Kinsey, Malcolm Hugh Patterson ...
    The U.S. military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the U.S. government expects the military to conduct operations—with much of that transformation contingent on the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Contractors and War

    The Transformation of United States’ Expeditionary Operations

    Edited by Christopher Kinsey, Malcolm Hugh Patterson ...
    The U.S. military is no longer based on a Cold War self-sufficient model. Today's armed forces are a third smaller than they were during the Cold War, and yet are expected to do as much if not more than they did during those years. As a result, a transformation is occurring in the way the U.S. government expects the military to conduct operations—with much of that transformation contingent on the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Diplomatic Security

    A Comparative Analysis

    Edited by Eugenio Cusumano, Christopher Kinsey ...
    The safety of diplomats has animated recent public and political debates. As diplomatic personnel are increasingly targeted by terrorism and political violence while overseas, sending states are augmenting host nations' security measures with their own. Protective arrangements range from deploying military, police, and private security guards to relocating embassies to suburban compounds. Yet, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Research Companion to Security Outsourcing

    by Joakim Berndtsson, Christopher Kinsey ...
    Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in which states have come to rely on private contractors to support interventions.Part One puts into context the evolution of outsourcing in Western states that are actively involved in expeditionary operations as well as the rise of the commercial security ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Corporate Soldiers and International Security

    The Rise of Private Military Companies

    by Christopher Kinsey ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces.Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the ranks of many European armies right up to the 1850s, the organizations that operated in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s, the rise of legally established private military companies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and today’s ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq

    Transforming Military Logistics

    by Christopher Kinsey ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    Private Contractors and the Reconstruction of Iraq examines the controversial role of military contractors in the reconstruction of Iraq. When *'*Operation Iraqi Freedom' was launched in March 2003, few, if any, of the Coalition's political leaders could have envisaged that within a few months the number of private contractors engaged to keep the troops supplied would exceed their actual combat ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

    by Jeffrey E. Garten ...
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  • The Weaponisation of Everything

    A Field Guide to the New Way of War

    by Mark Galeotti ...
    An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged—and how to adapt to this new reality“This brisk everyman’s guide—straight-talking and free of jargon—is a useful tasting menu to a fast moving, constantly evolving set of problems. . . . A lively reminder that war adapts to technology, that civilians are part of modern conflict whether they like it or not.”—Roger Boyes, The Times ... Read more

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  • Peace Without Money, War Without Americans

    Can European Strategy Cope?

    by Sven Biscop ...
    Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 confirmed the picture; Washington will support European action, but only if and when Europe takes the initiative. Just as the focus of American strategy is shifting to Asia and the Pacific, vital interests in the European neighbourhood require resolute ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Corporate Warriors

    The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry

    by P. W. Singer ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Some have claimed that "War is too important to be left to the generals," but P. W. Singer asks "What about the business executives?" Breaking out of the guns-for-hire mold of traditional mercenaries, corporations now sell skills and services that until recently only state militaries possessed. Their products range from trained commando teams to strategic advice from generals. This new "Privatized ... Read more

    $9.99 USD