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    1. International Services Agency (also known as the Academy for Security Instruction, or A4SI)
    2. North Carolinian mercenaries hired recent advisor to Trump's UN ambassador while pressing for Board of Peace role
    3. Artan Training Center
    4. Private Military and Security Companies Across the Globe
    5. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
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    1. State Responsibility for Violations of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law by Private Security Companies in Africa: The Case of the Wagner Group and Africa Corps
    2. Private Military and Security Companies Across the Globe
    3. Guns for Hire, States in Ruin: An International Regulatory Framework to Combat the Exploitation of Weak States by Private Military Companie
    4. Unmanned Threats, Untapped Billions: Writing the Rulebook for the Next Massive Security Market
    5. The Meaning of Privatization
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    1. State Responsibility for Violations of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law by Private Security Companies in Africa: The Case of the Wagner Group and Africa Corps
    2. Kiev Regime Accused of Sacrificing Foreign Mercenaries as Losses Top 5,000
    3. Doubling Down - Russia's Military Network in West Africa
    4. Doubling Down
    5. Russia Hoped Africa Corps Would Replicate Wagner's Success. It's Not Going Well.
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    Legal

    1. State Responsibility for Violations of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law by Private Security Companies in Africa: The Case of the Wagner Group and Africa Corps
    2. ‘Donetsk Court’ Sentences Georgian Fighter to 14 Years in Absentia on Mercenary Charges
    3. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
    4. Uzbekistan Sentences Man for Foreign Mercenary Activity
    5. Four Defendants Convicted in Plot to Kill Haitian President Jovenel Moïse
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
    2. The Meaning of Privatization
    3. Cyber Offense: How Far Can Private Organizations Go?
    4. Capitalizing on wartime expertise: Ukraine weighs formation, export of for-profit military companies
    5. Mercenaries, Private Security, and the Civilian Cost of Outsourced Coercion
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