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 research fellow at Humbolt 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.

This book could not be better timed, given the subject, regulation of PMCs, and it makes a significant contribution to the academic literature on PMCs.

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