From Mercenaries to Market

Simon Chesterman is Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme, and an Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. His books include You, The People: The United Nations, Transitional Administration, and State-Building (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2001).Chia Lehnardt is a doctoral student at Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2005-2006 she was responsible for the research project on private military companies at the Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ), New York University School of Law. Educated in Berlin, Oxford, Florence, and New York, she has previously worked as a consultant to the IILJ, at the German Federal Parliament, and with a law firm specializing in public law.

As a resource, From Mercenaries to Market serves only as a starting point, but a very good one. At only 256 pages, and covering many different topics relating to PMCs, it is impressive that the contributors provide so much useful analysis and information. Every contribution is well cited, and chapters are complimented by a select bibliography that makes taking the next step easy for inquisitive readers

• Foreword ; Introduction ; I CONCERNS ; 1. Morality and Regulation ; 2. What should and what should not be regulated? ; II CHALLENGES ; 3. Weak governments in search of strength: Africa's experience of mercenaries and private military companies ; 4. A government in search of cover: private military companies in Iraq ; 5. Transitional states in search of support: PMCs and security sector reform ; III NORMS ; 6. Private military companies under international humanitarian law ; 7. Private military companies and state responsibility ; 8. Domestic regulation: licensing regimes for the export of military goods and services ; IV MARKETS ; 9. The emerging market for private military services and the problems of regulation ; 10. Make or buy? Principal-agent theory and the regulation of private military companies ; 11. Contract as a tool for regulating private military companies ; 12. Regulating the role of private military companies in shaping security and politics ; 13. The future of the market ; 14. Conclusion: From mercenaries to market ; Bibliography ; Index