This book examines the legitimation of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), focusing on the controversy between PMSCs and nongovernmental organizati

Since the 1990s, private military and security companies (PMSCs) have intervened in civil wars around the globe. International, legally registered corporate act

This book engages in a constructive, practical debate on the nature and effects of uncertainty in global politics. International contributors explore the proces

This book explains how security is organized from the local to the national level in post-war Sierra Leone, and how external actors attempted to shape the field

The Governor's Dilemma develops a general theory of indirect governance based on the tradeoff between governor control and intermediary competence; the empirica