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Private Armed Forces and Global Security: A Guide to the Issues (Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues) by Juan Carlos Ortiz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Through an array of theoretical approaches and empirical material, this comprehensive and accessible volume surveys private armed forces and directly challenges conventional stereotypes of security contractors.Private Armed Forces and Global Security: A Guide to the Issues is the first book to provide a comprehensive yet accessible survey of the private military groups involved in conflicts worldwide. Organized around four themes, it covers the history of private military forces since 1600, the main contemporary actors and their defining characteristics, the environments in which private armed forces operate, and provides an analysis of the logic behind privatizing security.This book goes beyond conventional knowledge, offering both a theoretical approach and a new, practical perspective to advance the understanding of the ongoing climate of global instability and relevant players within it. Numerous examples help the reader grasp the full range of real-world challenges and conceptual facets surrounding this fascinating, yet highly polarizing topic.

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Author

Juan Carlos Ortiz

Publisher

Praeger; Bloomsbury

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9798216001409

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Military