Over the past decade, states and international organizations have shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign private firms do violence or create harm? This timely book describes the services that are now delivered by private contractors and the threat this trend poses to core public values of human rights, democratic accountability, and transparency. The author offers a series of concrete reforms that are necessary to expand traditional ...
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Over the past decade, states and international organizations have shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign private firms do violence or create harm? This timely book describes the services that are now delivered by private contractors and the threat this trend poses to core public values of human rights, democratic accountability, and transparency. The author offers a series of concrete reforms that are necessary to expand traditional legal accountability, construct better mechanisms of public participation, and alter the organizational structure and institutional culture of contractor firms. The result is a pragmatic, nuanced, and comprehensive set of responses to the problem of foreign affairs privatization.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 271 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010025732 Type of material Book Personal name Dickinson, Laura A. (Laura Anne) Main title Outsourcing war and peace: preserving public values in a world of privatized foreign affairs / Laura A. Dickinson. Published/Created London; New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2011. Description xi, 271 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780300144864 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0300144865 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780300168525 (e-book) 0300168527 (e-book) LC classification KF855. D53 2011 Contents Key moments in U.S. military and security outsourcing, from Vietnam to Iraq--Too many gaps? : catching private contractors in the web of litigation--The unexplored promise of contract--Public participation/private contract--Uniformed military lawyers, organizational structure and culture, and the impact of privatization. LC Subjects Defense contracts--United States. Private military companies--United States. Contracting out--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-259) and index. Dewey class no. 355.6/2120973 Geographic area code n-us---National bib no. GBB0A7129 National bib agency no. 015643743 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn601349979
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