Outsourcing the responsibility to protect: Humanitarian intervention and private military and security companies

International Theory

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-31

  Pattison, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

authority; effectiveness; humanitarian intervention; private military and security companies; the Moderate Instrumentalist Approach; the responsibility to protect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956254205     PISSN: 17529719     EISSN: 17529727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1752971909990224     Document Type: Article

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