Outsourcing war and peace : preserving public values in a world of privatized foreign affairs / Laura A. Dickinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, Laura A. (Laura Anne)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contracting out--United States.

Contracting out.

Defense contracts--United States.

Defense contracts.

Private military companies--United States.

Private military companies.

Physical Description:

xi, 271 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Key Moments in U.S. Military and Security Outsourcing, from Vietnam to Iraq

3. Too Many Gaps? Catching Private Contractors in the Web of Litigation

4. The Unexplored Promise of Contract

5. Public Participation / Private Contract

6. Uniformed Military Lawyers, Organizational Structure and Culture, and the Impact of Privatization

7. Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613096173

9781283096171

128309617X

9780300168525

0300168527

OCLC:

1024047142

Publisher Number:

10.12987/9780300168525