CRACK TROOPS OR BLOODY KILLERS? STATES, POLITICAL PARTIES, AND MERCENARIES 1805-2017
Journal: Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano)
Year: 2020

Addressing political attitudes toward mercenaries and contractors, this dissertation offers an original empirical contribution and a new theoretical framework to investigate international norms, and relations between political parties and private armed groups. I code and analyze all references to mercenaries and private military companies in the Italian and British Parliamentary debates from 1805 to 2017. Regarding the norm, I demonstrate that the anti-mercenary norm evolves through three critic