ABSTRACT

Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in which states have come to rely on private contractors to support interventions.

Part One puts into context the evolution of outsourcing in Western states that are actively involved in expeditionary operations as well as the rise of the commercial security sector in Afghanistan. To explain the various theoretical frameworks that students can use to study security/military outsourcing, Part Two outlines the theories behind security outsourcing. Part Three examines the law and ethics surrounding the outsourcing of security by focusing on how states might monitor contractor behaviour, hold them to account and prosecute them where their behaviour warrants such action. The drivers, politics and consequences of outsourcing foreign policy are covered in Part Four, which is divided into two sections: section one is concerned with armed contractors (providing the provision of private security with the main driver being a capability gap on the part of the military/law enforcement agencies), and section two looks at military contractors (supporting military operations right back to antiquity, less controversial politically and often technologically driven). The final Part takes into consideration emerging perspectives, exploring areas such as gender, feminist methodology, maritime security and the impact of private security on the military profession.

This book will be of much interest to students of military and security studies, foreign policy and International Relations.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

ByJoakim Berndtsson, Christopher Kinsey

part 1|56 pages

The Outsourcing Context

chapter 1|11 pages

Supporting the Troops

Military Contracting in the United States
ByMartha Lizabeth Phelps

chapter 2|10 pages

Outsourcing Military Logistics and Security Services

The Case of the United Kingdom
ByChristopher Kinsey

chapter 3|11 pages

Dissecting Military and Security Outsourcing in Canada’s Expeditionary Culture

Afghanistan and the Future
ByChristopher Spearin

chapter 4|11 pages

Coercion and Capital in Afghanistan

The Rise, Transformation and Fall of the Afghan Commercial Security Sector 1
ByChristian Olsson

chapter 5|11 pages

A ‘Pacifist’ Approach to Military Contracting

How German History Explains Its Limited Use of Private Security Companies
ByBirthe Anders

part 2|53 pages

Theorising Security Outsourcing

chapter 6|11 pages

The Evolution of Private Force

BySean McFate

chapter 7|11 pages

Money for Nothing?

Contractor Support from an Economic Perspective
ByEugenio Cusumano

chapter 8|10 pages

Critical Perspectives on Military Markets

ByAnna Leander

chapter 9|12 pages

Outsourcing and Risk

From the Known to the Unknown
ByElke Krahmann

chapter 10|8 pages

Merchants of Security

Private Security Companies, Strategy and the Quest for Power
ByMarcus Mohlin

part 3|81 pages

The Law, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility of Outsourcing Security

chapter 11|11 pages

Contractors and the Law of Armed Conflict 1

ByMalcolm Hugh Patterson

chapter 12|18 pages

Contract Law as Cover

Curtailing the Scope of Private Military and Security Contractor Responsibilities
ByHin-Yan Liu

chapter 13|12 pages

Socially Responsible Security Providers?

Analysing Norm Internalisation among Private Security Providers
ByAileen Acheson

chapter 15|10 pages

Democratic States, War and Private Security Companies

The Ethical Puzzles
ByMervyn Frost

chapter 16|10 pages

The Contractor as the New Cosmopolitan Soldier

ByAndreas Krieg

part 4|55 pages

Armed Security Contractors and Military Contractors Drivers, Politics and Consequences

chapter 18|10 pages

What Is Driving the Outsourcing of Diplomatic Security?

ByEugenio Cusumano, Christopher Kinsey

chapter 19|11 pages

Reconfiguring Power and Insecurity in the Afghan Context

The Consequences of Outsourcing Security in High-risk Societies
ByÅse Gilje Østensen

chapter 20|9 pages

Industry and Support to UK Contemporary Military Operations

A Practitioner’s Strategic Military Perspective
ByDavid Shouesmith

chapter 21|10 pages

The Politics of Outsourcing Military Support Services

ByMark Erbel

chapter 22|14 pages

The Consequences of Outsourcing Military Support Functions

ByMolly Dunigan

part 5|56 pages

Emerging Perspectives Issues of Gender, Military Professionals and Maritime Private Security

chapter 23|13 pages

The Culture of Whiteness in Private Security

ByAmanda Chisholm

chapter 24|12 pages

The Issue of Gender and Armed Contractors

ByJutta Joachim, Andrea Schneiker

chapter 25|11 pages

Security Outsourcing and Critical Feminist Inquiry

Taking Stock and Looking Forward
ByMaria Stern

chapter 26|9 pages

Private Maritime Security

Assemblage in a Space of Exception?
ByAlex Gould

chapter 27|10 pages

Private Security, Military Professionals and the State

ByJoakim Berndtsson

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

ByJoakim Berndtsson, Christopher Kinsey