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• Biaumet, Gilles. Analyse des relations entre les compagnies privées militaires et de sécurité et les Nations Unies. Mémoire présenté en vue de l’obtention du grade de Master en sciences politiques, orientation Relations internationales. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Année académique : 2008-2009: click here

• Chakrabarti, Shantanu. Privatisation of Security in the Pot-Cold War Period: An Overview of its Nature and Implications. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. IDSA Monograph Series, No. 2, December 2009: click here

• Chakrabarti, Shantanu. Growth and Implications of Private Military Corporations. Journal of Defence Studies, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA, New Delhi), vol.1, no.2, 2008: click here

• Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo. Empresas Transnacionales de Seguridad Privada en Colombia. Informe sobre las actividades de empresas transnacionales de seguridad privada de Estados Unidos en Colombia. 4 February 2008: PDF English | PDF Español

• International Crisis Group. Reforming Haiti’s Security Sector. 18 September 2008: click here

• Lindemann, Marc. Civilian Contractors under Military Law. Parameters, Autumn 2007, pp. 83-94: click here

• Jung, Stéphanie. Les Nouveaux Entrepreneurs de Guerre. Défis juridiques at implications politiques du recours aux sociétés militaires privées. Université Robert Schuman - Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Juin 2006. click here

• Kovac, Matija. Legal Issues Arising from the Possible Inclusion of Private Military Companies in UN Peacekeeping. Master in International Affairs disseration. University of Geneva, Graduate Institute of International and Decelopment Studies, Geneva, 2008 ( PDF): click here | The author would prefer that for citation purposes the reader obtains a copy of and cites:

Kovac, Matija. Legal Issues Arising from the Possible Inclusion of Private Military Companies in UN Peacekeeping. Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, vol. 13 (2009), 307-374.

• Kumar Nandi,Tanay and Mohanty,Satabdee. The Emergence of Private Military Firms and Their Impact on Global Human Rights. Occasional paper by two final year students at the National Law University (Jodhpur) and Gujarat National Law University (Gandhinagar), India, April 2010: click here

• Ortiz, Carlos. The new public management of security: the contracting and managerial state and the private military industry. Public Money & Management, vol. 30, no. 1, 2010 , 35-41: click here

• Ortiz, Carlos. Private military contracting in weak states: permeation or transgression of the new public management of security? African Security Review, vol. 17, no 2, 2008, 2-14: click here

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• Ortiz, Carlos. Compañías militares privadas: hacia la transformación del estado y la nueva gerencia pública de la seguridad. Revista Académica de Relaciones Internacionales, núm. 9, Octubre 2008, 1-19: http://www.relacionesinternacionales.info/revista/revista/N9/pdf/artortiz9.pdf

• Ortiz, Carlos. The Private Military Company: An Entity at the Center of Overlapping Spheres of Commercial Activity and Responsibility, in Jäger, Thomas and Kümmel, Gerhard (eds). Private Military and Security Companies. Chances, Problems, Pitfalls and Prospects, Vs Verlag, 2007, pp. 55-68: click here

• RAND Corporation (Sarah K. Cotton, Ulrich Petersohn, Molly Dunigan, Q Burkhart, Megan Zander-Cotugno, Edward O’Connell, Michael Webber). Hired Guns. Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom. RAND, 2010: click here

• RAND Corporation | Market for Force project, 2010-2011| Coordinators: Molly Dunigan and Ulrich Petersohn | Discusants: Allison Stanger, Elke Krahmann, Deborah Avant | ISA Montreal 2011 papers

Bennett, Jody Ray. Country Profile on the Market for Force: India

Carmola, Kateri. American Private Military Contracting: From Cowboys to Corporate Consultants

Catallo, Jennifer. China 's Managed “Market for Force”

Fitzsimmons, Scott. The Externally-Focused Market for Combat Services in the United States

Gumedze, Sabelo. The Markets for Force: South Africa

Jaskoski, Maiah. Battalions for Hire: Private Army Contracts in Peru and Ecuador

Leander, Anna. Private Providers of Public Goods: The Private (In)security Industry in Denmark

Ortiz, Carlos. The Market for Force in the U.K. : The Recasting of the Monopoly of Violence and the Management of Force as a Public-Private Enterprise

Sherman, Jake. The Markets for Force: Afghanistan Case Study

Spearin, Christopher. The Canadian Market for Force: A Purchaser/Provider Analysis

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• Richards, Anna and Smith, Henry (Safeworld). Addressing the role of private security companies within security sector reform programmes. London, January 2007: click here

• Rimli, Lisa and Schmeidl, Susanne. Private Security Companies and Local Populations. An exploratory study of Afghanistan and Angola. Swiss Peace Foundation, November 2007: click here

For links to organizations that have produced similar reports visit the RESEARCH CENTRES page

• Singer, Peter. Militares privados: beneficios vs política publica Private Military Contractors. Política Exterior, núm. 125. Septiembre / Octubre 2008, 65-77: click here

• Staples, Steven. No Bang for the Buck: Military contracting and public accountability. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. (CCPA) Report, Ottawa, 11 June 2007: click here

• Ulrike Joras and Adrian Schuster (eds). Private Security Companies and Local Populations: An Exploratory Study of Afghanistan and Angola. Swisspeace Working Papers, No. 1, 2008: click here

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