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.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction - joakim berndtsson and christopher kinsey
• PART I The Outsourcing Context: The Evolution of Security Outsourcing
• 1 Supporting the Troops: Military Contracting in the United States - martha lizabeth phelps
• 2 Outsourcing Military Logistics and Security Services: The Case of the United Kingdom - Christopher Kinsey
• 3 Dissecting Military and Security Outsourcing in Canada's Expeditionary Culture: Afghanistan and the Future - Christopher Spearin
• 4 Coercion and Capital in Afghanistan: The Rise, Transformation and Fall of the Afghan Commercial Security Sector - Christian Olsson
• 5 A ‘Pacifist’ Approach to Military Contracting: How German History Explains Its Limited Use of Private Security Companies - Birthe Anders
• PART II Theorising Security Outsourcing
• 6 The Evolution of Private Force - Sean McFate
• 7 Money for Nothing? Contractor Support from an Economic Perspective - Eugenio Cusumano
• 8 Critical Perspectives on Military Markets - Anna Leander
• 9 Outsourcing and Risk: From the Known to the Unknown - Elke Krahmann
• 10 Merchants of Security: Private Security Companies, Strategy and the Quest for Power - Marcus Mohlin
• PART III The Law, Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility of Outsourcing Security
• 11 Contractors and the Law of Armed Conflict - Malcolm Hugh Patterson
• 12 Contract Law as Cover: Curtailing the Scope of Private Military and Security Contractor Responsibilities - Hin-Yan Liu
• 13 Socially Responsible Security Providers? Analysing Norm Internalisation among Private Security Providers - Aileen Acheson
• 14 Regulating Human Rights in the Context of Outsourcing Military Logistics and Armed Security - Sorcha MacLeod
• 15 Democratic States, War and Private Security Companies: The Ethical Puzzles - Mervyn Frost
• 16 The Contractor as the New Cosmopolitan Soldier - Andreas Krieg
• 17 Is It Ethical for States to Prevent Their Citizens from Working as TCN Military and Security Contractors? - Deane-Peter Baker
• PART IV Armed Security Contractors and Military Contractors: Drivers, Politics and Consequences
• 18 What Is Driving the Outsourcing of Diplomatic Security? - Eugenio Cusumano and Christopher Kinsey
• 19 Reconfiguring Power and Insecurity in the Afghan Context: The Consequences of Outsourcing Security in High-risk Societies - Åse Gilje Østensen
• 20 Industry and Support to UK Contemporary Military Operations: A Practitioner's Strategic Military Perspective - David Shouesmith
• 21 The Politics of Outsourcing Military Support Services - Mark Erbel
• 22 The Consequences of Outsourcing Military Support Functions - Molly Dunigan
• PART V Emerging Perspectives: Issues of Gender, Military Professionals and Maritime Private Security
• 23 The Culture of Whiteness in Private Security - Amanda Chisholm
• 24 The Issue of Gender and Armed Contractors - Jutta Joachim and Andrea Schneiker
• 25 Security Outsourcing and Critical Feminist Inquiry: Taking Stock and Looking Forward - Maria Stern
• 26 Private Maritime Security: Assemblage in a Space of Exception? - Alex Gould
• 27 Private Security, Military Professionals and the State - Joakim Berndtsson
• Conclusion - Joakim Berndtsson and Christopher Kinsey