Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the Quest for Accountability (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
202
Utgivningsdatum
2015-02-20
Förlag
Routledge
Dimensioner
249 x 178 x 18 mm
Vikt
545 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781138854741

Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and the Quest for Accountability

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Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) have constituted a perennial feature of the security landscape. Yet, it is their involvement in and conduct during the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that have transformed the outsourcing of security services into such a pressing public policy and world-order issue. The PMSCs ubiquitous presence in armed conflict situations, as well as in post-conflict reconstruction, their diverse list of clients (governments in the developed and developing world, non-state armed groups, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, and international corporations) and, in the context of armed conflict situations, involvement in instances of gross misconduct, have raised serious accountability issues. The prominence of PMSCs in conflict zones has generated critical questions concerning the very concept of security and the role of private force, a rethinking of "essential governmental functions," a rearticulation of the distinction between public/private and global/local in the context of the creation of new forms of "security governance," and a consideration of the relevance, as well as limitations, of existing regulatory frameworks that include domestic and international law (in particular international human rights law and international humanitarian law). This book critically examines the growing role of PMSCs in conflict and post-conflict situations, as part of a broader trend towards the outsourcing of security functions. Particular emphasis is placed on key moral, legal, and political considerations involved in the privatization of such functions, on the impact of outsourcing on security governance, and on the main challenges confronting efforts to hold PMSCs accountable through a combination of formal and informal, domestic as well as international, regulatory mechanisms and processes. It will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, practitioners and advocates for a more transparent and humane security order. This book was published as a special issue of Criminal Justice Ethics.
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George Andreopoulos research focuses on the intersections of international relations and international law with special emphasis on international organizations and on international human rights and humanitarianism. John Kleinig works and publishes in moral, social, and political philosophy, with a special interest in criminal justice ethics.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Revisiting the Role of Private Military and Security Companies 2. Private Military and Security Companies and the Liberal Conception of Violence 3. Unaccountable: The Current State of Private Military and Security Companies 4. Accountability for Private Military and Security Contractors in the International Legal Regime M5. ind the Gap: Lacunae in the International Legal Framework Governing Private Military and Security Companies 6. Due Diligence Obligations of Conduct: Developing a Responsibility Regime for PMSCs 7. A U.N. Convention to Regulate PMSCs? 8. Transparency as a Core Public Value and Mechanism of Compliance 9. The Stability Operations Industry: The Shared Responsibility of Compliance and Ethics