| The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security Contributor(s): Avant, Deborah D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521615356 ISBN-13: 9780521615358 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $33.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: The flourishing role of the private sector in security management over the last twenty years has challenged state control of the legitimate use of force. Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers--including states, non-government organizations and commercial transnational corporations. Avant also charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, and suggests a new way to think about the control of force. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Investments & Securities - General - Political Science | Ngos (non-governmental Organizations) - Business & Economics | Government & Business |
| Dewey: 363.289 |
| LCCN: 2005045377 |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.08" W x 8.98" (1.07 lbs) 328 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Avant, Deborah D.: - Deborah D. Avant is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for Global and International Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. She is the author of Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons From Peripheral Wars (1994) and of numerous articles. |
