Mobilization Constraints and Military Privatization: The Political Cost-Effectiveness of Outsourcing Security - Couverture souple

Cusumano, Eugenio

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3031164253 ISBN 13 : 9783031164255

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

Synopsis

This book investigates the connection between tightening mobilization constraints and the use of PMSCs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. Drawing on neoclassical realism and institutionalist theory, it conceptualizes democracies’ use of private military and security companies (PMSCs) as an attempt to circumvent the tightening constraints on the mobilization of military power. The use of private military contractors is less subjected to parliamentary restrictions and less visible to public opinion than the deployment of soldiers. Rather than cheaper in financial terms, PMSCs are therefore politically cost-effective, as they enable decision-makers to minimize the institutional obstacles on conducting military operations and the electoral costs attached thereto. The need to reduce the ex ante hurdles and the ex post costs of military deployments fills the blind spots of alternative explanations for the use of PMSCs based on effectiveness, ideology, and organizational interests.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eugenio Cusumano is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Messina, Italy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3031164253
• ISBN 13: 9783031164255
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
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