Description
| Product ID: | 9780521125192 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security |
| Authors: | Author: Elke Krahmann |
| Page Count: | 318 |
| Subjects: | International relations, International relations, Military and defence strategy, Public international law: international organizations and institutions, Military tactics, International organisations & institutions |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2010-02-04 |
