Format:
1 online resource (319 pages)
ISBN:
9781139044592
Content:
Examines the changing roles of the state, the citizen and the soldier, and the consequences for national and international security.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- Private military contractors -- The rise of the private military industry -- Ideology and civil-military control -- Causes of ideological change -- Democratic control and accountability -- Structure of the book -- 2 The state monopoly on collective violence and democratic control over military force -- The Social Contract -- Thomas Hobbes -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Republicanism and Liberalism -- James Madison -- John Stuart Mill -- Neoliberalism -- Competing models of the state and the soldier -- Between centralized government and fragmented governance -- Citizen-soldiers, professional soldiers and private military contractors -- Conclusion -- 3 The transformation of the state and the soldier -- Democracy and security before the First World War -- The World Wars and the centralization of security -- The Cold War and the warfare state -- Neoliberalism and the emergence of security governance in the 1980s -- Civil-military transformations and democratic control -- Conclusion -- 4 United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security -- Thatcherism, the Third Way and the military -- From warfare state to manager state -- Outsourcing -- Private Finance Initiative -- Partnering with industry -- Dismantling the all-volunteer forces -- Professionals turned contractors -- From civil-military 'gap' to 'gulf' -- The managerial state, private soldiers and democratic control -- Public information and scrutiny -- Executive autonomy -- Professional self-regulation -- Conclusion -- 5 United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier -- Neoliberalism and the armed forces -- Revising the functions of the state and the armed forces -- Defining the military core -- Military contracting expanded.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521110198
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521110198
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=674660
