Routledge Research Companion to Security Outsourcing

Joakim Berndtsson is a Associate Professor at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Christopher Kinsey is Reader in Business & International Security at Kings College London, UK.

'This volume presents a comprehensive selection of the latest research analyzing the challenges, complexities, and ambiguities surrounding the diverse state of strategic outsourcing of private security to conflict settings. Anyone curious about how this crucial development has dramatically transformed the global security landscape would find this to be an invaluable reference.' -- Robert Mandel, Lewis & Clark College, USA‘An essential reader’s guide to security outsourcing in high risk or conflict environments, bringing together established and new scholars from a variety of disciplines to focus on how and why governments decide to use market rather than public actors in dealing with international security challenges. It is a refreshing and original contribution to the field of the privatisation of security that will appeal to academic, policy and general audiences.’ -- Christopher Dandeker, King’s College London, UK

• Introduction, Joakim Berndtsson and Christopher KinseyPart I: The Outsourcing Context: the Evolution of Security Outsourcing1. Supporting the Troops: Military Contracting in the United States, Martha Lizabeth Phelps2. Outsourcing Military Logistics and Security Services: the Case of the UK, Christopher Kinsey3. Dissecting Military and Security Outsourcing in Canada’s Expeditionary Culture: Afghanistan and the Future, Christopher Spearin4. Coercion and Capital in Afghanistan: The Rise, Transformation and Fall of the Afghan Commercial Security Sector, Christian Olsson5. A "Pacifist" Approach to Military Contracting: How German History Explains its Limited Use of Private Security Companies, Birthe AndersPart II: Theorising Security Outsourcing6. The Evolution of Private Force, Sean McFate7. Money for nothing? Contractor Support from an Economic Perspective, Eugenio Cusumano8. Critical Perspectives on Military Markets, Anna Leander9. Outsourcing and Risk: From the Known to the Unknown, Elke Krahmann10. Merchants of Security: Private Security Companies, Strategy and the Quest for Power, Marcus MohlinPart III: The Law, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility of Outsourcing Security11. Contractors and the Law of Armed Conflict, Malcolm H Patterson12. Contract Law as Cover: Curtailing the Scope of Private Military and Security Contractor Responsibilities, Hin-Yan Liu13. Socially Responsible Security Providers? Analysing Norm Internalisation among Private Security Providers, Aileen Acheson14. Regulating Human Rights in the Context of Outsourcing Military Logistics and Armed Security, Sorcha MacLeod15. Democratic States, War and Private Security Companies: The Ethical Puzzles, Mervyn Frost16. The Contractor as the New Cosmopolitan Soldier, Andreas Krieg17. Is it Ethical for States to Prevent their Citizens from Working as TCN Military and Security Contractors?, Deane-Peter BakerPart IV: Armed Security Contractors and Military Contractors: Drivers, Politics and Consequences18. What is driving the Outsourcing of Diplomatic Security?, Eugenio Cusumano and Christopher Kinsey19. Reconfiguring Power and Insecurity in the Afghan context: The Consequences of Outsourcing Security in High Risk Societies, Ase Gilje Østensen20. Industry and Support to UK Contemporary Military Operations: A Practitioner’s Strategic Military Perspective, David Shouesmith21. The Politics of Outsourcing Military Support Services, Mark Erbel22. The Consequences of Outsourcing Military Support Functions, Molly DuniganPart V: Emerging Perspectives: Issues of Gender, Military Professionals, and Maritime Private Security23. The Culture of Whiteness in Private Security, Amanda Chisholm24. The Issue of Gender and Armed Contractors, Jutta Joachim and Andrea Schneiker25. Security Outsourcing And Critical Feminist Inquiry: Taking Stock and Looking Forward, Maria Stern26. Private Maritime Security: Assemblage in a Space of Exception, Alexander Gould27. Private Security, Military Professionals and the State, Joakim BerndtssonConclusion, Joakim Berndtsson and Christopher Kinsey