States, Citizens and the Privatisation of Security

by 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 differences with regard to the outsourcing of military services to private companies and their specific consequences for the democratic control over the legitimate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B078PLKXQ4
• ISBN13: 9780521125192
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"