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  Journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters of academic relevance. Authors: please submit your articles (any language) for incorporation in this space. We can also host your conference papers and higher education dissertations for free: disseminate your research and contribute to the debate! Many more papers to add once we finish the upgrade of the website's templates.  
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• Higate, Paul. Aversions to Masculine Excess in the Private Military and Security Company and their Effects: Don’t Be a “Billy Big Bollocks” and beware the “Ninja!” School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Working Paper No. 08-12: PDF, 2012 (not dated): PDF

• Krahmann, Elke and Friesendorf, Cornelius. The Role of Private Security Companies (PSCs) in Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) Missions and Operations. European Union, Policy Department Directorate General External Policies EXPO/B/SEDE/FWC/2009-01/LOT6/10/REV1 April 2011: PDF

• 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

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• 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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