Category Archives: Academic

Soldiers of Fortune: A qualitative study into the effects of military provider, Private Military Companies on the domestic sovereignty of fragile African nations

Full Text Dissertation or Thesis Inherently Governmental: Private Military Contracting and U.S. Empire in the Twenty-First Century Quadri, Zaynab The George Washington University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2022. 29321159. PDF not available.     You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Whose security is it? Elitism and the global approach to maritime security in Africa

Whose security is it? Elitism and the global approach to maritime security in Africa Ifesinachi Marybenedette Okafor-Yarwood & Freedom C. Onuoha Pages 946-966 | Received 22 Aug 2022, Accepted 09 Jan… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Reining in the “Third Path”: Rethinking the War Powers Resolution and Private Security Contractorsand Private Security Contractors

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Privatizing civil society: outsourcing governance in John le Carré’s post-Cold War novels

Research Article Privatizing civil society: outsourcing governance in John le Carré’s post-Cold War novels Paul Narkunas Pages 285-301 | Received 22 Sep 2022, Accepted 26 Oct 2022, Published online: 09 Dec… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa

Tensions of Modernity: Privilege, Precarity, and Colonial Nostalgia among European Security Contractors in East Africa   You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to register  

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Russian Para-Military Operations in Africa: The Wagner Group as a De Facto Foreign Policy Instrument

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Buy At Your Own Risk: Market Structure and the Performance of Russian Private Military Companies

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To Escalate, or Not to Escalate? Private Military and Security Companies and Conflict Severity

To Escalate, or Not to Escalate? Private Military and Security Companies and Conflict Severity Nicholas Lees & Ulrich Petersohn Pages 2622-2645 | Received 01 Nov 2020, Accepted 24 May 2021, Published online:… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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Soldiers of Fortune qualitative study into the effects of military provider, Private Military Companies on the domestic sovereignty of fragile African nations

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Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal Order

Politics and Governance 2024 • Volume 12 • Article 7367 A R T I C L E Open Access Journal Wagner Group Flows: A Two‐Fold Challenge to Liberal Intervention and Liberal… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading

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