Commercializing cosmopolitan security : safeguarding the responsibility to protect /: safeguarding the responsibility to protect. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Andreas Krieg.
• Authors: Krieg, Anas
• Contents: Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Glossary ; List of Figures; 1: Introduction; Private, Public, Global: The Concept of Security; The Contractor as a Cosmopolitan Security Provider; The Research Approach; The Contractor as a Cosmopolitan Security Provider: Not a Novel Idea; Outline; Notes; 2: The Nature of Civil-Military & Civil-Contractor Relations; Introduction; Understanding Civil-Military Relations Through Social Contract Theory; The Social Contractarian Raison d'être of the State; The State-Soldier Contract and Social Contractarian Civil-Military Relations. The Commercial Counterpart: Apathetic Civil-Contractor RelationsConceptualizing the Relationship Between the Client State and the PMC; Replicating a Moral Principal-Agent Relationship Within a Corporate Environment: PMC-Contractor Relations; Underline; Conclusion; Notes; 3: Understanding the Changing Nature of Conflict Against the Backdrop of Globalization; Introduction; How Globalization Redefines the Role of the State and the Nature of Conflict; The Privatization of Force; The Use of Unconventional Insurgency/Terrorist Strategies and Tactics; Conclusion; Notes. 4: Considering the Argument for the Cosmopolitan Responsibility to ProtectIntroduction; The Normative Case for Humanitarian Intervention in Just War Theory; Humanitarian Intervention in International Law; The Road to the Responsibility to Protect in the Post-Cold War Era; Conclusion; Notes; 5: Ethical Conduct in Humanitarian Intervention; Ethical Behaviour in War: Jus in Bello; Jus in Bello in Post-Modern Conflict; The Consequences of Jus in Bello on the Selection of the Means of Warfare; Operational Effectiveness in Post-Modern Warfare. Examining the Probability of Success in Humanitarian InterventionConclusion; Notes; 6: Civil-Military Constraints on Strategic and Operational Decision-Making in Humanitarian Intervention; Introduction; Introducing the State's Delicate Dilemma in Humanitarian Intervention; Civil-Military Relations and Strategic Decision-ƯMaking in Humanitarian Intervention; Recapitulating Social Contractarian Civil-Military Relations; Casualty Sensitivity and the Intimate Civil-Military Bond; Casualty Sensitivity and the State. The Impact of Casualty Sensitivity on the Political Leadership's Strategic Decision-Making in Humanitarian Intervention The USA in Northern Iraq and on the Balkans: Removing the Soldier from Harm's Way; Germany in Afghanistan: Understating Military Commitments Overseas by Limiting Contingent Size; Military Operational Planning for Humanitarian Intervention Within a Constrained Strategic Environment; Why the Military Leadership Replaces the Soldier with Technology; How the Military Leadership Limits the Soldier's Operational Risk Exposure: The Example of Somalia and Bosnia; Conclusion; Notes.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 341.5/84; Political science; Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Libya; Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Syria; Responsibility to protect (International law); Peace; Politics and war; Globalization; Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects; Responsibility to protect (International law); Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- International Security; Political Science -- Globalization; Law -- International; Warfare & defence; Globalization; International humanitarian law; Political Science -- Peace; Peace studies & conflict resolution; Libya; Syria; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319333762; 3319333763
• Related ISBNs: 9783319333755; 3319333755
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 27, 2016).
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