1st Edition
Mercenaries and Security Contractors in the 21st Century The Past and Future of Private Force
Introduction, Eugenio Cusumano Part I: Historical Overview 1. Mercenaries and Neomedievalism: From History to Historicity, Malte Riemann 2. Private Military Corporations and Military Contractors in the Chola Empire: Circa 800 to Circa 1200 CE, Kaushik Roy 3. Mercenaries in 14th-Century Europe: Crack troops or ‘useless and dangerous’?, Matteo C.M. Casiraghi 4. How Britain Socially Constructed Mercenaries: The Case of German Soldiers in British Service during the American War of Independence, Helene Olsen Part II: Private Force Today 5. The Market for Force in the United Arab Emirates’s Network-centric Statecraft, Andreas Krieg 6. Wagner Goes South: Russian Private Military Contractors in North Africa and the Sahel, Assala Khettache 7. Private Security in Colombia: The stabilization of Medellin. Robert Parr 8. China’s Emerging Private Security Companies: Development, challenges, and future prospects, Jingdong Yuan 9. Varieties of Maritime Private Security: Commercial vessel protection off the Horn of Africa and in the Gulf of Guinea, Eugenio Cusumano 10. Private Military Companies: Low-cost tools for power and status?, Åse Gilje Østensen and Tor Bukkvoll 11. International Volunteers in the Ukraine War: Macro-level scripts and micro-level motivations, Naira Arutyunova and Jozef Bátora 12. Representations of Soldiers of Fortune in Mexico and the Congo in American and European Cinema, Paul B. Rich Part III: Private Force and the Future of International Security 13. Future Warfare between Privatization and Automation, Antonio Calcara 14. Private Warriors for the Digital Age? The demand and supply of cybersecurity firms, Isabella Stuerzer and Moritz Weiss 15. Private Force in Africa: Reassessing regulatory frameworks and advocating for an African-centric approach to PMSCs, Oluwaseyi Mike Bamigboye and Christopher Kinsey Conclusion, Christopher Kinsey and Robert Parr
Biography
Eugenio Cusumano is Professor of Politics at the University of Messina, Italy. He is the author/editor of several books, including Piracy and the Privatisation of Maritime Security (with Stefano Ruzza, 2020) and Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization (2023).
Christopher Kinsey is Professor of International Security at King's College, London. He is the author/editor of several books including Contractors and War (co-edited with Malcolm Patterson, 2012) and The Mercenary (2023).
Robert Parr is leading International Security Consultant and a 25-year veteran of UK Special Forces and National Intelligence. He has held a series of executive and senior management appointments within the global security sector, where he has provided consultancies in more than 140 countries worldwide.
