Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security

by Eugenio Cusumano

This book investigates the connection between tightening mobilization constraints and the use of PMSCs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Drawing on neoclassical realism and institutionalist theory, it conceptualizes democracies' use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) as an attempt to circumvent the tightening constraints on the mobilization of military power. The use of private military contractors is less subjected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031164229
• ISBN13: 9783031164224
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"