Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
Foreword
-Deborah Avant
Chapter 1. Introduction
Ulrich Petersohn and Molly Dunigan
Chapter 2. Diverse Markets for Force in Latin America: From Argentina to Guatemala
-Kristina Mani
Chapter 3. The Military Protection Markets in Peru and Ecuador: A Detailed Analysis
-Maiah Jaskoski
Chapter 4. The Market for Force in the United Kingdom: The Recasting of the Monopoly of Violence and the Management of Force as a Public-Private Enterprise
-Carlos Ortiz
Chapter 5. The Market for Private Force in the Czech Republic
-Oldřich BureŠ
Chapter 6. Informal but Diverse: The Market for Exported Force from Russia and Ukraine
-Olivia Allison
Chapter 7. The Markets for Force in Afghanistan
-Jake Sherman
Chapter 8. China's Managed Market for Force
-Jennifer Catallo
Chapter 9. The Canadian Market for Force
-Christopher Spearin
Chapter 10 The Market for Force in the United States
-Scott Fitzsimmons
Chapter 11. The Causes and Consequences of Different Types of Markets for Force
-Molly Dunigan and Ulrich Petersohn
Appendix: Testing the Relative Explanatory Power of the "Market Types" Argument
-Ulrich Petersohn and Molly Dunigan
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

The Markets for Force compares the markets for private military and security services across the globe, examining how local markets evolve and interact with regional politics and geostrategic context.

About the Author

Molly Dunigan is a political scientist at the Rand Corporation and author of Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness. Ulrich Petersohn teaches international politics at the University of Liverpool and is coauthor of Hired Guns: Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Reviews

"A well-conceived and well-researched book, with unique and detailed case studies that will add significantly to the field." (Elke Krahmann, Brunel University London)