Outsourcing War And Peace: Preserving Public Values In A World Of Privatized Foreign Affairs
by Laura A. Dickinson /
2011 / English / PDF
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Over the past decade, states and international organizations have
shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private
contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign
private firms do violence or create harm? This timely book
describes the services that are now delivered by private
contractors and the threat this trend poses to core public values
of human rights, democratic accountability, and transparency. The
author offers a series of concrete reforms that are necessary to
expand traditional legal accountability, construct better
mechanisms of public participation, and alter the organizational
structure and institutional culture of contractor firms. The
result is a pragmatic, nuanced, and comprehensive set of
responses to the problem of foreign affairs privatization.
Over the past decade, states and international organizations have
shifted a surprising range of foreign policy functions to private
contractors. But who is accountable when the employees of foreign
private firms do violence or create harm? This timely book
describes the services that are now delivered by private
contractors and the threat this trend poses to core public values
of human rights, democratic accountability, and transparency. The
author offers a series of concrete reforms that are necessary to
expand traditional legal accountability, construct better
mechanisms of public participation, and alter the organizational
structure and institutional culture of contractor firms. The
result is a pragmatic, nuanced, and comprehensive set of
responses to the problem of foreign affairs privatization.