 | The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security by Deborah D. Avant
Buy new: £20.13 / Used from: £17.61 A good argument about PSCs/PMCs and a must read for scholars.
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 | Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatilized Military Industry by P.W. Singer
Buy new: £29.74 / Used from: £29.73 The text that brough the subject to a mainstream audience.
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 | Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton
Buy used from: £3.85 Extensive field research behind this title, which surely makes good reading.
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| Armies Without States: the Privatization of Security by Robert Mandel
Buy used from: £47.02 This was actually the first scholarly book about PMCs and PSCs in the era of globalisation.
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 | War Dog: Fighting Other People's Wars - The Modern Mercenary in Combat by Al J. Venter
Buy new: £20.00 / Used from: £8.75 Long wait for this title from a well-known and respected author.
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 | Mercenaries: An African Security Dilemma
Buy new: £21.24 / Used from: £20.66 A 1990s anthology of writing about PMCs and mercenaries in contemporary Africa. It remains essential reading.
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 | Mercenaries by Guy Arnold
Buy used from: £95.70 1990s title implicitly addressing the transition from the old to the new mercenary business.
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 | Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business by Madelaine Drohan
Buy new: £15.23 / Used from: £4.53 If interested on blanket assessments from a purely negative point of view, this is a book for you.
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 | Bloodsong!: First Hand Accounts of a Modern Private Army in Action by James Hooper
Buy used from: £49.45 A good introduction to Executive Outcomes for those that discovered the subject yesterday: well researched and enjoyable reading throughout.
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 | An Unorthodox Soldier: Peace and War and the Sandline Affair by Tim Spicer
Buy used from: £3.82 Seasonal reading for those interested in the views from industry players.
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 | Fortune's Warriors: Private Armies and the New World Order by James Davis
Buy used from: £20.79 Written before the time PMCs/PSCs were a mainstream subject.
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 | Corporate Soldiers and International Security (Contemporary Security Studies) by Christopher Kinsey
Buy new: £71.25 / Used from: £46.50 For this price tag, you better wait for copies to start reaching charity shops.
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