Juan Carlos Ortiz – författare

Through an array of theoretical approaches and empirical material, this comprehensive and accessible volume surveys private armed forces and directly challenges conventional stereotypes of security contractors.Private Armed Forces and Global Security: A Guide to the Issues is the first book to provide a comprehensive yet accessible survey of the private military groups involved in conflicts worldwide. Organized around four themes, it covers the history of private military forces since 1600, the main contemporary actors and their defining characteristics, the environments in which private armed forces operate, and provides an analysis of the logic behind privatizing security.This book goes beyond conventional knowledge, offering both a theoretical approach and a new, practical perspective to advance the understanding of the ongoing climate of global instability and relevant players within it. Numerous examples help the reader grasp the full range of real-world challenges and conceptual facets surrounding this fascinating, yet highly polarizing topic.

Estas notas de clase se basan en algunas obras clásicas ampliamente utilizadas en la comunidad académica internacional para el estudio de la Oceanografía Física, y publicadas por autores como Pickard y Emery, Pond y Pickard, Knauss, Müller, Young, además de la serie Open University y el texto del profesor Robert Stewart, de la Universidad de Texas A&M. El texto incorpora algunos elementos descriptivos y también dinámicos para facilitar el proceso de aprendizaje a alumnos de pregrado avanzado y principiantes a nivel de posgrado que no hayan tomado un curso similar acerca de la física del océano y la atmósfera.