Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84521 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
DIIS Working Paper No. 2005:2
Publisher: 
Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
The paper assesses the general trend towards privatisation, in the developed as well as the developing world, where even “high politics” is increasingly performed by, or outsourced to, non-state actors. This is both the case for foreign and security politics, including war, where the use by states (as principals) of agents such as guerrilla movements, militias and private military companies (PMCs) is becoming more frequent. The special case of PMCs is analysed at length, coming out in favour of a combined legalisation and regulation, which is found to open up opportunities for military missions such as humanitarian interventions, not least in Africa, which would otherwise not be undertaken.
ISBN: 
8776050610
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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