States, citizens and the privatization of security
"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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47048906*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
