Authors: Adam Roberts,Vaughan Lowe,Jennifer Welsh,Dominik Zaum
52
UN doc. A/60/263 of 17 Aug. 2005, 21.
53
Juan Carlos Zarate, ‘The Emergence of a New Dog of War: Private International Security Companies, International Law, and the New World Disorder’,
Stanford Journal of International Law
34 (1998), 161.
54
Christopher Coker, ‘Outsourcing War’,
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
XIII, no. 1 (1999), 108; David Shearer, ‘Outsourcing War’,
Foreign Policy
(1998), 90.
55
Herbert M. Howe, ‘Private Security Forces and African Stability: The Case of Executive Outcomes’,
Journal of Modern African Studies
36, no. 2 (1998), 309; William Reno, ‘Internal Wars, Private Enterprise and the Shift in Strong State-Weak State Relations’,
International Politics
37, no.1 (2000), 68.
56
Brian Urquhart, ‘For a UN Volunteer Military Force’,
New York Review of Books
, 10 June 1993.
57
Interview with David Harland, 10 July 2003.
58
Interview with Michael Moller, 31 July 2003.
59
The exception here is the use of PSCs to guard humanitarian aid or UN personnel, which occurs without much comment. The distinction here is the combat/non-combat distinction outlined above; forces which do not fight are deemed to be more palatable than those which do.
60
Shearer, ‘Outsourcing’, 68.
61
Transcript of a press conference with Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 12 July 1997, available at
www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1997/19970612.sgsm6255.html
62
Text of thirty-fifth annual Ditchley Foundation Lecture, given by Secretary-General Kofi Annan, 26 June 1998. United Nations Press Release SG/SM/6613, available at
www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1998/19980626.sgsm6613.html
63
Cranfield University Study, submitted as a memorandum to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. Quoted in House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee,
Private Military Companies
(London: The Stationery Office Ltd, 2001–2), 26.
1
GA Res. 377(V) of 3 Nov. 1950.