Selective privatization of security: why American strategic leaders choose to substitute private security contractors for national military force

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dc.contributor.author Stanley, Bruce Edwin
dc.date.accessioned 2012-04-17T16:07:26Z
dc.date.available 2012-04-17T16:07:26Z
dc.date.issued 2012-04-17
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13610
dc.description.abstract Ideas about why US foreign policy actors have turned ever more frequently to private military contractors (PMCs) and private security contractors (PSCs) over the past decade and a half abound. Descriptive accounts of the rise of these corporations have become something of a cottage industry over the past decade or so. The various ideas advanced have yet to be placed under rigorous empirical scrutiny, however. This dissertation builds from the existing descriptive literature to advance a new theoretical framework to explain the rise of private contractors. It analyzes this framework as well as alternative ideas using both quantitative and qualitative analysis, marking the first time this important subject has been systematically examined with both social science methods. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Kansas State University en
dc.subject Private en_US
dc.subject Contractors en_US
dc.subject Security en_US
dc.title Selective privatization of security: why American strategic leaders choose to substitute private security contractors for national military force en_US
dc.type Dissertation en_US
dc.description.degree Doctor of Philosophy en_US
dc.description.level Doctoral en_US
dc.description.department Security Studies Program en_US
dc.description.advisor Jeffrey Pickering en_US
dc.subject.umi International Relations (0601) en_US
dc.subject.umi Military Studies (0750) en_US
dc.subject.umi Political Science (0615) en_US
dc.date.published 2012 en_US
dc.date.graduationmonth May en_US


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