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Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security: Safeguarding the Responsibility to Protect
Andreas Krieg
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Description for Commercializing Cosmopolitan Security: Safeguarding the Responsibility to Protect
Hardback. Num Pages: 289 pages, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JWLP; LBBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to exercise its responsibility to protect communities under threat. Here, Krieg explains the civil-military dynamics behind the state's failure to effectively intervene in humanitarian crises overseas using its serviceman. The central question that follows is: would the private military contractor be a better alternative agent of the state in humanitarian intervention? ... Read more
This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security. In a world of ungoverned spaces, state failure and erupting humanitarian crises, the international community is increasingly called upon to exercise its responsibility to protect communities under threat. Here, Krieg explains the civil-military dynamics behind the state's failure to effectively intervene in humanitarian crises overseas using its serviceman. The central question that follows is: would the private military contractor be a better alternative agent of the state in humanitarian intervention? ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
508g
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319333755
SKU
V9783319333755
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Ref
99-15
About Andreas Krieg
Andreas Krieg is an assistant professor in Defence Studies at King's College London currently seconded to the military Staff College in Qatar. Dr Krieg is a specialist in military and security affairs with a particular regional focus on the Middle East. In his research he focuses inter alia on civil-security sector relations and the ethics of war.
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