Week 4

Question 1

Who are private military companies

Answer 1

they are business organizations that trade in professional services intricately linked to warfare

Question 2

When (private military companies)

Answer 2

• The British East India Company maintained its own private army to protect
  commercial interests in India
• Modern: the end of the cold war

Question 3

Why (private military companies)

Answer 3

• Transformations in the nature of warfare itself
• Privatization revolution
• The incidence of civil wars
• globalization

Question 4

Where (private military companies)

Answer 4

Advanced liberal societies

Question 5

Changing attitude

Answer 5

• Changing attitudes towards crime and punishment
• Increasingly centered on prevention and prediction

Question 6

Security privatization threat to power?

Answer 6

A threat to the power and authority of states. However some argue Security Privatization Is Not a Sign of State Failure Contrary to popular belief, the rise of private security is not necessarily evidence of state weakness. It represents a reconfiguration of the state, where security provision is distributed across public and private actors within complex governance networks.

Question 7

New view on security

Answer 7

As a market commodity, and not the sole responsibility of governments

Question 8

Controversial solution to peace and stability operations + what proponents suggests how it might play a constructive role

Answer 8

using private contractors in peace operations
- First, capacity to provide effective troops to UN operations.
- The second way a rapid reaction combat force

Question 9

Main concerns security privatization

Answer 9

• privatization of combat capacity is not a panacea
• Accountability is the primary concern
• the absence of the rule of law
• the profit motive being primary
• Destructive and illegal behavior by company employee

Question 10

PSC’s

Answer 10

• PSCs is the ability to fill quickly urgent operational requirements
• the superior cost-efficiency and effectiveness of PSC
• The current lack of transparency, accountability and control of PSCs deployed
  in many multilateral interventions may be viewed by some governments as an
  advantage/disadvantages

Question 11

Cyber security

Answer 11

Both about the insecurity created through cyberspace and about the technical and nontechnical practices of making it more secure