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  • Privatising peace[electronic resource] :a corporate adjunct to United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian operations /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 341.5/84
    書名/作者: Privatising peace : a corporate adjunct to United Nations peacekeeping and humanitarian operations // Malcolm Hugh Patterson.
    作者: Patterson, Malcolm Hugh,
    出版者: Basingstoke, U.K. ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    面頁冊數: xiv, 260 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    標題: Peacekeeping forces.
    標題: Mercenary troops.
    標題: Private military companies.
    標題: Private security services.
    ISBN: 9780230246881
    ISBN: 0230246885
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-252) and index.
    內容註: Introduction -- Alternatives to ad hoc sovereign forces -- From mercenary to UN contractor? -- The public-private security environment -- Other industry aspects -- A modest proposal -- Conclusion.
    摘要、提要註: The history of United Nations peacekeeping is largely one of failure. The causes are endemic,persistent and unlikely to be remedied. It seems reasonable to consider two ideas in response: whether ad hoc peacekeepers might be augmented or even replaced by competent contract labour; and whether well-trained contractors might in future subdue by force those who inflict gross human rights abuses on others. Alternatives to ad hoc forces are not new. Nevertheless, theoretical or practical substitutes have not been evaluated alongside the merits of a private corporation. Military contractors are frequently misrepresented as an affrontto states' authority. This is misleading. There has neverbeen a cleardivide between public and private resources in armed conflict and states have always employed both. There exists no compelling reason why theUN should not devise modern contracts that evolve from historically ubiquitous arrangements amongst its members and their more ancient predecessors.
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