States, citizens and the privatisation of security / Elke Krahmann.
"Recent years have seen a growing role for private military contractors in national and international security. To understand the reasons for this, Elke Krahmann examines changing models of the state, the citizen, and the soldier in the UK, the US, and Germany. She focuses on both the national...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 305 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- The state monopoly on violence and the democratic control over military force
- The transformation of the state and the soldier
- United Kingdom : private financing and the management of security
- United States : shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier
- Germany : between public-private partnerships and conscription
- Iraq and beyond : contractors in deployed operations
- The future of democratic security : contractorization or cosmopolitanism?.