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Private security companies and civil wars
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Private security companies (PSCs) have experienced explosive growth since 2001, growth that has been matched only by the consequent explosion in academic attention probing their influence. It is not hard to discover that PSCs and their employees constituted the second-largest member of the US-led Coalition of the Willing during the invasion of Iraq in 2003; that this represented a 10-fold increase compared with the first Gulf War in 1991; that there are between 15,000 and 50,000 contractors c...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/13698240802407041
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Civil Wars Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 57-74
- Publication date:
- 2009-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1743-968X
- ISSN:
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1369-8249
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:5578
- Deposit date:
- 2011-07-19
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- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright date:
- 2009
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