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Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis - Von Afrika über den Balkan zum „Krieg gegen den Terror“: Zur Rolle von Privaten Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen bei militärischen Einsätzen

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Die kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen im Irak und in Afghanistan seit der Jahrtausendwende haben einem der interessantesten Phänomene der internationalen Beziehungen der Gegenwart eine größere Aufmerksamkeit beschert. Die Rede ist von Privaten Sicherheitsund Militärunternehmen (PSMU), deren Aktivitäten im internationalen Konfliktgeschehen in den vergangenen Jahren zusehends Eingang in das Bewusstsein der Politik, der Öffentlichkeit, der Medien und der Wissenschaft gefunden haben (Avant 2000, 2005; Brayton 2002; Uesseler 2006; Jäger/Kümmel 2007; Singer 2008). Von den einen als (moderne) Söldner verschrien, von den anderen als Heilsbringer gepriesen, verdienen PSMU eine nüchterne Betrachtung. Im Folgenden werden PSMU deswegen schlaglichtartig aus der Empirie heraus beleuchtet, um daran anschließend eine konzeptionell-theoretische „Schneise in das Dickicht“ zu schlagen.

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Kümmel, G. (2011). Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis - Von Afrika über den Balkan zum „Krieg gegen den Terror“: Zur Rolle von Privaten Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmen bei militärischen Einsätzen. In: Jäger, T., Beckmann, R. (eds) Handbuch Kriegstheorien. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-93299-6_45

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