The Markets for Force: Privatization of Security Across World Regions
ISBN: 9780812291438
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Private security services; Private security companies; National security; Security sector;

The Markets for Force compares the markets for private military and security services across the globe, examining how local markets evolve and interact with regional politics and geostrategic context.


Molly Dunigan is a political scientist at the Rand Corporation and author of Victory for Hire: Private Security Companies' Impact on Military Effectiveness. Ulrich Petersohn teaches international politics at the University of Liverpool and is coauthor of Hired Guns: Views About Armed Contractors in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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