Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2014
Status
Accepted
Abstract
This review discusses Ann Hagedorn's book, which addresses the post-millennial proliferation of arms-bearing contractors that has roiled the human rights community and catalyzed a global conversation about the nature and future of modern warfare. Hagedorn’s perspective and insights on arms bearing contractors, democracies, and empires—intensely personal, yet thoughtfully cognizant of policy, political theory, and philosophy—should interest readers new to the field, as well as those well versed in the issues. Outsourcing the use of force is sufficiently important to the future of democratic states that this book—as well as the growing corpus of literature it adds to—merits serious contemplation.
GW Paper Series
2014-54
SSRN Link
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2530592
Recommended Citation
Volume 44, Parameters, Page 152 (Issue 3, Autumn 2014)