Private Security Contractors and New Wars

This book addresses the ambiguities of the growing use of private security contractors and provides guidance as to how our expectations about regulating this expanding 'service' industry will have to be adjusted.

Kateri Carmola is the Christian A. Johnson Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College in Vermont. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Introduction 1. The Complex Identity of the PMSC 2. The Multifaceted Origins of the PMSC Industry 3. Contracting and Danger in the Risk Society 4. PMSCs and the Clash of Legal Cultures 5. Frontier Ethics Epilogue: Recommendations