Date: 2022
Type: Article
Varieties of organised hypocrisy : security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations
European security, 2022, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 159-179
CUSUMANO, Eugenio, BURES, Oldrich, Varieties of organised hypocrisy : security privatisation in UN, EU, and NATO crisis management operations, European security, 2022, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 159-179
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72438
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International organisations (IOs) have increasingly resorted to private military and security companies (PMSCs) as providers of armed protection, training, intelligence, and logistics. In this article, we argue that IOs, seeking to reconcile conflicting international norms and member states’ growing unwillingness to provide the manpower required for effective crisis management, have decoupled their official policy on and actual use of PMSCs, thereby engaging in organised hypocrisy. Due to its stricter interpretation of norms like the state monopoly of violence, the United Nations (UN) has showcased a more glaring gap between talk and action than the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which display a more pragmatic, but not entirely consistent, approach to the use of PMSCs. By examining the decoupling between UN, EU, and NATO official contractor support doctrines and operational records, this article advances the debate on both security privatisation and organised hypocrisy.
Additional information:
First published online: 02 September 2021
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/72438
Full-text via DOI: 10.1080/09662839.2021.1972975
ISSN: 0966-2839; 1746-1545
Publisher: Routledge
Keyword(s): Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) Organised hypocrisy Security privatisation European Union
Sponsorship and Funder information:
This article was supported by Czech Research Foundation [20-07805S].
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