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- Title
MEN WITH GUNS.
- Authors
Riley, John; Gambone, Michael
- Abstract
From the most critical aspects of maintaining their national security to the mundane work of trucking and virtually everything in between, governments have turned to private military corporations ("PMCs"), but as numerous studies have demonstrated, efforts to regulate PMC actions are lagging. Conversely, there is a realization that any efforts to better regulate PMCs has to be done in a way that is congruent with states' interests. This is not simply a question of states' geo-strategic interests being an unfortunate equipoise to more effective regulation. Rather, PMCs are playing a fundamental role in states' efforts to maintain their vital interests and questions of how to more effectively regulate PMCs must be seen from this broader perspective. This paper advances the argument that by outlawing mercenaries, the international community has inadvertently made effective regulation of PMCs all but impossible. More effective regulation would be possible if PMCs were formally legalized and a simple regulatory regime that charged the contracting actor with the responsibility of holding the PMC compliant with international humanitarian law ("IHL") was created.
- Subjects
PRIVATE military companies; NATIONAL security; MERCENARY troops; HUMANITARIAN law; INTERNATIONAL law
- Publication
Wisconsin International Law Journal, 2010, Vol 28, Issue 1, p39
- ISSN
0743-7951
- Publication type
Article