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    Companies

    1. The Business History of Erik Prince (2000–Present)
    2. International Services Agency (also known as the Academy for Security Instruction, or A4SI)
    3. North Carolinian mercenaries hired recent advisor to Trump's UN ambassador while pressing for Board of Peace role
    4. Artan Training Center
    5. Private Military and Security Companies Across the Globe
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    Academic

    1. OUTSOURCING VIOLENCE: PARA-INSTITUTIONAL COERCIVE ACTORS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ REGIONAL ACTIVISM
    2. Regulating the Modern Mercenary the Normative Bias against Mercenarism and Its Impact on Industry Regulation
    3. Understanding public blame attributions when private contractors are responsible for civilian casualties
    4. DANGERS FROM WITHIN WHY A FEDERAL STATUTE IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT MILITARY MEMBERS FROM CONTRACTOR NEGLIGENCE OUTSIDE OF COMBAT AND MILITARY CONTROL
    5. Russian Private Military Contractors in the Donbas Rehearsing Future Voyages
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    Russia

    1. Russia’s top source of foreign mercenaries for Ukraine war named
    2. “Hell’s Army”: New Film Tracks Russia’s Wagner Group & Rise of Mercenary Armies
    3. The story of Wagner Group, Russia's notorious mercenaries
    4. Russian Private Military Contractors in the Donbas Rehearsing Future Voyages
    5. 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
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    Legal

    1. DANGERS FROM WITHIN WHY A FEDERAL STATUTE IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT MILITARY MEMBERS FROM CONTRACTOR NEGLIGENCE OUTSIDE OF COMBAT AND MILITARY CONTROL
    2. 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
    3. ‘Donetsk Court’ Sentences Georgian Fighter to 14 Years in Absentia on Mercenary Charges
    4. ICE Profiteer Claims It Cannot Be Sued
    5. Uzbekistan Sentences Man for Foreign Mercenary Activity
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    Outsourcing/Privatization

    1. OUTSOURCING VIOLENCE: PARA-INSTITUTIONAL COERCIVE ACTORS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES’ REGIONAL ACTIVISM
    2. Privatization of War in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
    3. The Meaning of Privatization
    4. Cyber Offense: How Far Can Private Organizations Go?
    5. Capitalizing on wartime expertise: Ukraine weighs formation, export of for-profit military companies
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