States, citizens and the privatization of security
By: Elke Krahmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780521110198; 9780521125192
Other titles: States, citizens, and the privatization of security
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: State monopoly on violence and the democratic control over military force; title: The transformation of the state and the soldier; title: United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security; title: United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier; title: Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription; title: Iraq and beyond: contractors in deployed operations; title: The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?