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
-Old ich Bures
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

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