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History and Development.- Overseas Trade in Early Modernity and the Emergence of Embryonic Private Military Companies.- Does History Repeat Itself? A Comparative Analysis of Private Military Entities.- The Privatization of Military Affairs: A Historical Look into the Evolution of the Private Military Industry.- The Private Military Company: An Entity at the Center of Overlapping Spheres of Commercial Activity and Responsibility.- Soldiers of Misfortune: Is the Demise of National Armed Forces a Core Contributing Factor in the Rise of Private Security Companies?.- Private Security Companies: Agents of Democracy or Simply Mercenaries?.- Case Studies.- Searching for Resources, Offering Security ... Private Military Companies in Sierra Leone.- Contracting in the Fog of War ... Private Security Providers in Iraq: A Principal-Agent Analysis.- Privatization of Maritime Security in Southeast Asia.- No Contractors on the Battlefield: The Dutch Military’s Reluctance to Outsource.- Privatization in the German Armed Forces.- The Private Security Industry in Kenya: Issues and Challenges.- Private Security Guards as a Socio-Professional Group in Bulgaria.- The Civilianization of the US Military: Army and Navy Case Studies of the Effects of Civilian Integration on Military Personnel.- Problems and Prospects.- Human Rights and Private Military Companies: A Double-Edged Sword too Dangerous to Use?.- Liaisons Dangereuses: The Cooperation between Private Security Companies and Humanitarian Aid Agencies.- Private Security Companies and Civil-Military Cooperation.- Effective Peacekeeping and the Privatization of Security.- Norms versus Rationality: Why Democracies Use Private Military Companies in Civil Wars.- Back to the Future: Private Military Contractors and Political Theory in theModern Democratic State.- Legal Issues and Patterns of Regulation.- Private Military Companies: The New Mercenaries? — An International Law Analysis.- Private Security and Military Companies under the International Law of Armed Conflict.- The Notion of ‘Direct Participation in Hostilities’ and Its Implications on the Use of Private Contractors under International Humanitarian Law.- Who is Responsible? The Use of PMCs in Armed Conflict and International Law.- Private Military Companies and Domestic Law in South Africa.- National Regulatory Regimes for PSMCs and their Activities: Benefits and Shortcomings.- Selling Security: Trade-Offs in State Regulation of the Private Security Industry.- Informal Regulation: An Economic Perspective on the Private Security Industry.- Conclusion.- PSMCs: Lessons Learned and Where to Go from here.

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About the Author

Prof. Dr. Thomas Jager teaches Political Science, especially International Relations and Foreign Policy, at the University of Cologne (Germany). Dr. Gerhard Kummel is Senior Researcher at the Bundeswehr Institute of Social Sciences (SOWI) in Strausberg/Berlin (Germany), Vice-President of the Research Committee 01: Armed Forces & Conflict Resolution within the International Sociological Association, Associate Editor of "Armed Forces & Society" and teaches Military Sociology at the University of Potsdam (Germany).

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"Letztlich, so machen die Herausgeber deutlich, können PSC Segen oder Fluch sein. Dies hängt vom jeweiligen Kontext ab. Jedoch reflektiert die Privatisierung von Sicherheit die Veränderungen in den Beziehungen von Staat und Gesellschaft einerseits und von Staat und Individuum andererseits. Damit wird auch deutlich, so Jäger und Kümmel, dass es sich hier um kein temporäres Phänomen handelt, sondern um einen Gegenstand, der intensiverer Erforschung bedarf. Und mit diesem anspruchsvollen und multiperspektivisch strukturierten Sammelband haben deren Autoren bereits einen wichtigen Schritt getan." WeltTrends - Zeitschrift für internationale Politik, März/April 2009

"Die Herausgeber haben durch die Vereinigung politik- und rechtswissenschaftlicher Perspektiven einen thematisch abgerundeten und analytisch tiefgehenden Band vorgelegt, der sicherlich schon jetzt zu den Standardwerken auf diesem noch recht jungen Forschungsgebiet gezählt werden kann." Neue Politische Literatur, 01/2008

"[...] der Sammelband [ermöglicht] einen gelungenen Einstieg in die Beschäftigung mit PMCs. Dass die Urteile über deren Rolle so unterschiedlich ausfallen, ist eher von Vorteil, weil die Leserinnen und Leser so gezwungen sind, eigene Schlüsse aus der Fülle an Informationen und Interpretationen zu ziehen." www.hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de, 04.02.2009

"Insgesamt beleuchtet der Sammelband das Pnänomen der Private Military Companies aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln gut und sticht durch seine umfassende und systematische Darstellung hervor. Auf Grund der teilweise theoretischen, teilweise empirischen Herangehensweise wird ein erweitertes Verständnis der Thematik erreicht." S+F - Sicherheit und Frieden, 02/2008

"Das Buch wartet mit interessanten Hintergrundinformationen für die immer wieder in der Öffentlichkeit stattfindende Diskussion auf, und die verschiedenen Autoren beleuchten dabei die diversen Aspekte und Konsequenzen eines Einsatzes undder Regelung dieser Unternehmen mit erfreu

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