Regulating Private Military Companies

Conflicts of Law, History and Governance
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-138-61005-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

This work examines the ability of existing and evolving PMC regulation to adequately control private force, and it challenges the capacity of international law to deliver accountability in the event of private military company (PMC) misconduct. From medieval to early modern history, private soldiers dominated the military realm and were fundamental to the waging of wars until the rise of a national citizen army. Today, PMCs are again a significant force, performing various security, logistics, and strategy functions across the world. Unlike mercenaries or any other form of irregular force, PMCs acquired a corporate legal personality, a legitimising status that alters the governance model of today. Drawing on historical examples of different forms of governance, the relationship between neoliberal states and private military companies is conceptualised here as a form of a ‘shared governance'. It reflects states’ reliance on PMCs relinquishing a degree of their power and transferring certain functions to the private sector. As non-state actors grow in authority, wielding power, and making claims to legitimacy through self-regulation, other sources of law also become imaginable and relevant to enact regulation and invoke responsibility.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Galai, Katerina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Introduction Conceptual framework Power and Legitimacy Identifying forms of governance Chapter Outline Chapter 1: Private Military Companies, a contemporary problem? Mercenaries, Contractors, Civilians Definition of Private Military Companies Challenges of the DefinitionsPMC ClassificationRegulation and accountability: who should be regulated and to what end?Regulation The Purpose of Regulation AccountabilityConclusion Chapter 2: Private forces in different forms of governance: historical typologies Feudalism and Absolutism Professional ArmiesItalian City-Republics and Civilian Militia Civilian Militia as a Norm Against Mercenaries The French Revolution and the Nation-StateLa Levée en Masse The British Empire and the EIC The EIC and its Accession to PowerThe Army of the EICWas the Army of the EIC Private or Public? Normative Approaches to Mercenaries Conclusion Chapter 3: Mercenaries of the Twentieth Century and State Responsibility The Rise of International Legal NormsNon-Intervention as an International Legal Norm Decolonisation and Proxy Warfare Decline of Non-Interventionism Mercenary Forces in the Congo and AngolaInternational Legal Response to the Use of Irregular ForcesAnti-Mercenary Norms The Nicaragua Case Conclusion Chapter 4: New Wars, Neoliberalism, and the Rise of PMCs New Wars and the Rise of PMCs Neoliberalism Accountability and State Control Governance and Governmentality Conclusion Chapter 5: Legal mechanisms and ch

Über Autor(innen)

Katerina Galai is a defence and security analyst at RAND Europe, a non-for-profit research institute, based in Cambridge, UK.