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The global reorganization of legitimate violence: military entrepreneurs and the private face of international humanitarian law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2007

James Cockayne
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Abstract

Although long hidden from the public gaze of international humanitarian law, military entrepreneurialism has played a key role in the global organization of legitimate violence. By examining historical changes in the role and legal treatment of military entrepreneurs, the author sheds light on the contemporary “resurfacing” of privately organized violence in the form of private military companies, and its broader implications for international humanitarian law.

Type
Private Military Companies
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 88 , Issue 863: Private Military Companies , September 2006 , pp. 459 - 490
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2006

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