Elke Krahmann (Brunel University)

States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security

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Produktbeschreibung

Elke Krahmann examines the changing roles of the state, the citizen and the soldier. She focuses on national differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies, and the specific consequences of these differences for the democratic control over the legitimate use of armed force.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780521125192
• ISBN-10: 0521125197
• Artikelnr.: 28338211

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.