Internationalizing and Privatizing War and Peace
Internationalizing and Privatizing War and Peace

Author: H. Wulf

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-05

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0230514812

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In this timely work, the author analyzes the use of private military firms and international interventions of the military. Outsourcing to the private sector takes missions away from the military, but the shift towards international intervention adds new, wider functions to the traditional role of defence. If these two trends continue at the present pace, important security functions will be out of control of parliaments, national governments and international authorities. The state monopoly of violence - an achievement of civilization - is at stake.

IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences
IAENG Transactions on Engineering Sciences

Author: Sio-Iong Ao

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2014-04-07

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1315761815

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Two large international conferences on Advances in Engineering Sciences were held in Hong Kong, March 13-15, 2013, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2013), and in London, U.K., 3-5 July, 2013, under the World Congress on Engineering 2013 (WCE 2013) respectively. IMECS 2013 and WCE 2013 were organize