This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China’s negotiation approach to go

This new Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of current research on private security and military companies, comprising essays by leading scholars from aro

The privatization of security understood as both the top-down decision to outsource military and security-related tasks to private firms and the bottom-up activ

Private actors are increasingly taking on roles traditionally arrogated to the state. Both in the industrialized North and the developing South, functions essen

Rapid growth and burgeoning diversification within the private security industries have extensively increased interaction between security operators and the pub