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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|56 pages
The Outsourcing Context
chapter 2|10 pages
Outsourcing Military Logistics and Security Services
chapter 3|11 pages
Dissecting Military and Security Outsourcing in Canada’s Expeditionary Culture
chapter 4|11 pages
Coercion and Capital in Afghanistan
chapter 5|11 pages
A ‘Pacifist’ Approach to Military Contracting
part 2|53 pages
Theorising Security Outsourcing
chapter 10|8 pages
Merchants of Security
part 3|81 pages
The Law, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility of Outsourcing Security
chapter 12|18 pages
Contract Law as Cover
chapter 13|12 pages
Socially Responsible Security Providers?
part 4|55 pages
Armed Security Contractors and Military Contractors Drivers, Politics and Consequences
chapter 19|11 pages
Reconfiguring Power and Insecurity in the Afghan Context
chapter 20|9 pages
Industry and Support to UK Contemporary Military Operations
part 5|56 pages
Emerging Perspectives Issues of Gender, Military Professionals and Maritime Private Security