Mercenaries, Pirates, Bandits, and Empires: Private Violence in Historical Context

288 Pages·2011·4.99 MB·English

by  Alejandro Colás

MERCENARIES,
PIRATES, BANDITS
AND EMPIRES
PRIVATE VIOLENCE IN
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
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edited by
Alejandro Colds | Bryan Mabee
MERCENARIES, PIRATES, BANDITS
AND EMPIRES

Mercenaries, Pirates,
Bandits and Empires
Private Violence
in Historical Context
edited by
Alejandro Colas and Bryan Mabee
Columbia University Press
New York
Columbia University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mercenaries, pirates, bandits and empires : private violence in historical context / edited
by Alejandro Colas and Bryan Mabee.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-70208-9 (alk. paper)
ISBN 978-0-231-80052-3 (eBook)
1. Violence—History. 2. Political violence—History. 3. Non-state actors
(International relations). 4. Piracy—History. 5. Mercenary troops—History.
6. Imperialism. 7. Private military companies. 8. Private security services.
I. Colas, Alejandro. II. Mabee, Bryan. III. Title.
JC328.6.M47 2010
303.609—dc22
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction: Private Violence in Historical Context 1
Alejandro Colds and Bryan Mabee
1. Distinctions, Distinctions: 'Public' and 'Private' Force? 15
Patricia Owens
2. State and Armed Force in International Context Tarak Barkawi 33
3. Privateers of the North Sea: At Worlds End—French Privateers
in Norwegian "Waters Halvard Leira and Benjamin de Carvalho 55
4. The Flow and Ebb of Private Seaborne Violence in Global Politics:
Lessons from the Atlantic "World, 1689-1815 83
Alejandro Colds and Bryan Mabee
5. Violent Undertows: Smuggling as Dissent in Nineteenth-Century
Southeast Asia Eric Tagliacozzo 107
6. 'Tribes' and "Warlords in Southern Afghanistan, 1980-2005 133
Antonio Giustozzi and Noor Ullah
7. The Criminal-State Symbiosis and the Yugoslav Wars 159
of Succession Kenneth Morrison
8. Private Security Companies in the Malacca Straits: Mapping New
Patterns of Security Governance Patrick Cullen 187
9. Securing the City: Private Security Companies and Non-State
Authority in Global Governance 213
Rita Abrahams en and Michael C. Williams
Contributors 237
Index 241
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book had its origins in a workshop entitled 'Pirates, Bandits, Mercenaries
and Terrorists: Privatised Violence in Historical Context', held at Queen Mary,
University of London on 23 May 2008. We would like to thank all of the par-
ticipants in the original workshop for what was a very inspiring day, and also
to those who were not at the workshop but have since then prepared papers
especially for this volume. We would also like to thank the British Academy,
who supplied the funding for the original workshop on which the project was
based (British Academy grant SG-48319). The chapters by Rita Abrahamsen
and Michael C. Williams, and Patricia Owens are republished here with per-
mission from the journals International Relations and International Affairs,
respectively.
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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
AIM Alternative Informativna Mreza (Alternative Information
Network)
ANC African National Congress
ARBiH Armija Bosne i Hercegovine (Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
BARS Background Asia Risk Solutions
BHL Ban Hoe Leong
BSA Bosnian Serb Army
CCID Central City Improvement Districts
CHAN Centre Historique dArchives Nationaux
CID City Improvement Districts
CSD Centre for the Study of Democracy
EIC East India Company
ESRC The Economic and Social Research Council
EU European Union
EUFOR European Union force
FRY Federal Republic of Yugoslavia {Savezna Republika Jugoslavija)
FYROM The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
CDMA Glenn Defense Marine Asia
GDP Gross Domestic Product
HDK Hizb-i Demokratik-e Khalq (Peoples Democratic Party of
Afghanistan)
HDZ Hrvatska Demokratska Zajednica (the Croatian Democratic
Union)
HMS Harbour Marine System
HUMSEC Human Security in the Western Balkan Region
HVO Hrvatsko Vijece Obrane (Croatian Council of Defence)
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