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What makes people fight for countries other than their own? Nir Arielli offers a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the French Revolution to Syria. Challenging notions of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli explores motivations, ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war.

Foreign enlistment --- Military service, Voluntary --- Soldiers --- History. --- History. --- Psychology.

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A critique of mercenary involvement in post Cold-War African conflicts.

Mercenary troops --- Mercenaries (Soldiers) --- Troops, Mercenary --- Armies --- Non-state actors (International relations) --- Soldiers --- Foreign enlistment --- Private military companies --- Africa --- History

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Drawing on a range of original, unpublished archival sources, Tozzi highlights the linguistic, religious, cultural, and racial differences that France's experiments with noncitizen soldiers introduced to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French society. Winner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --- Foreign enlistment --- Mercenary troops --- Soldiers, Black --- Jewish soldiers --- Jews as soldiers --- Soldiers --- Black soldiers --- Negro soldiers --- Negroes as soldiers --- Blacks --- Mercenaries (Soldiers) --- Troops, Mercenary --- Armies --- Non-state actors (International relations) --- Private military companies --- Enlistment --- Military offenses --- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1814 --- Participation, Foreign. --- History. --- France. --- France combattante. --- History --- France --- History, Military --- Black people

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This title provides a comprehensive survey and guide to the mercenary forces, entrepreneurs, and corporations that are a major component of warfare today.

Mercenary troops --- Private military companies --- Private security services --- Private security companies --- Private security industry --- Protection services, Private --- Security companies, Private --- Security industry, Private --- Security services, Private --- Crime prevention --- Security systems --- Police, Private --- Security consultants --- Military companies, Private --- Military contractors, Private --- Military service providers --- PMCs (Private military companies) --- Private military contractors --- Contractors --- Defense contracts --- Mercenaries (Soldiers) --- Troops, Mercenary --- Armies --- Non-state actors (International relations) --- Soldiers --- Foreign enlistment --- History --- Polemology --- Private military companies. --- Private security services. --- History.

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The legitimate use of force is generally presumed to be the realm of the state. However, the flourishing role of the private sector in security over the last twenty years has brought this into question. In this book Deborah Avant examines the privatization of security and its impact on the control of force. She describes the growth of private security companies, explains how the industry works, and describes its range of customers - including states, non-government organisations and commercial transnational corporations. She charts the inevitable trade-offs that the market for force imposes on the states, firms and people wishing to control it, suggests a new way to think about the control of force, and offers a model of institutional analysis that draws on both economic and sociological reasoning. The book contains case studies drawn from the US and Europe as well as Africa and the Middle East.

855.2 Private actoren --- Private security services. --- Police --- Mercenary troops. --- Internal security. --- National security. --- Contracting out. --- Privatization. --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Contract services --- Contracting for services --- Outsourcing --- Services, Contracting for --- Letting of contracts --- Privatization --- Public contracts --- National security --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Military policy --- Security, Internal --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Mercenaries (Soldiers) --- Troops, Mercenary --- Armies --- Non-state actors (International relations) --- Soldiers --- Foreign enlistment --- Private military companies --- Private security companies --- Private security industry --- Protection services, Private --- Security companies, Private --- Security industry, Private --- Security services, Private --- Crime prevention --- Security systems --- Police, Private --- Security consultants --- Government policy --- Social Sciences --- Political Science