Elke Krahmann

States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the changing roles of the state, the citizen and the soldier, and the consequences for national and international security.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 615g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110198
• ISBN-10: 052111019X
• Artikelnr.: 28107468

Autorenporträt

Elke Krahmann is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol. Her previous publications include New Threats and New Actors in International Security (2005) and Multilevel Networks in European Foreign Policy (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Acronyms
Lists of figures and tables
1. Introduction
2. The state monopoly on violence and the democratic control over military force
3. The transformation of the state and the soldier
4. United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security
5. United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier
6. Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription
7. Iraq and beyond: contractors in deployed operations
8. The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?
9. Conclusion
Selected bibliography
Index.