States, citizens and the privatization of security - Krahmann, Elke. (Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press, 2010)
State monopoly on violence and the democratic control over military force -- The transformation of the state and the soldier -- United Kingdom: private financing and the management of security -- United States: shrinking the state, outsourcing the soldier -- Germany: between public-private partnerships and conscription -- Iraq and beyond: contractors in deployed operations -- The future of democratic security: contractorization or cosmopolitanism?
Keywords: National security -- Case studies; Security, International -- Case studies; Contracting out -- Case studies; Private military companies -- Case studies; State, The -- Case studies; Civil-military relations -- Case studies; Democracy -- Case studies; Great Britain -- Military policy; United States -- Military policy; Germany -- Military policy