In libreria: Guerre conto terzi

Questo volume, edito da Il Mulino, analizza l'affermazione delle aziende di sicurezza privata (i cosiddetti "security contractors") nel mondo post-bipolare, le loro attività e le implicazioni che ne discendono.

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La storia dei guerrieri prezzolati è antica quanto quella della guerra. Oggigiorno, tuttavia, l’attività militare privata è condotta da soggetti nuovi, strutturati in forma aziendale: le «private security firms» (Psf). Questo rinnovamento organizzativo ha conseguenze che contribuiscono a spiegare il grande successo sperimentato di recente dai combattenti a pagamento, ingaggiati da una pluralità di clienti – pubblici e privati – e impegnati in ogni angolo del globo, dall’America Latina all’Estremo Oriente. Tramite l’analisi di casi – dagli operatori al soldo in Sierra Leone ai guerrieri privati in Croazia, Iraq e Colombia, ai «contractors» al servizio del governo degli Stati Uniti – il volume indaga come mai il mercato della sicurezza sia tale soltanto nei suoi aspetti deteriori; per quali ragioni la regolamentazione delle «private security firms» sia così difficile, e che cosa comporti il ritorno sulla scena della forza privata per il sistema internazionale.

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