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Small Wars & Insurgencies, Volume 33, Issue 1-2 (2022)

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From Condottieri to Cyber-mercenaries: The Past, Present and Future of Private Security Forces

Introduction

Advancing private security studies: introduction to the special issue

Eugenio Cusumano & Christopher Kinsey

Pages: 1-21

Published online: 28 Dec 2021

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Part 1 – Historical Overview

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Mercenaries in/and history: the problem of ahistoricism and contextualism in mercenary scholarship

Malte Riemann

Pages: 22-47

Published online: 10 Nov 2021

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Mercenaries and private military corporations in ancient and early medieval South Asia

Kaushik Roy

Pages: 48-70

Published online: 07 Feb 2022

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‘Useless and dangerous’? Mercenaries in fourteenth century wars

Matteo C.M. Casiraghi

Pages: 71-91

Published online: 29 Jul 2021

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The Social Construction of Mercenaries: German Soldiers in British Service during the Eighteenth Century

Helene Olsen

Pages: 92-111

Published online: 14 Sep 2021

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Mercenaries in the Congo and Biafra, 1960-1970: Africa’s weapon of choice?

Stephen Rookes & Walter Bruyère-Ostells

Pages: 112-129

Published online: 31 Aug 2021

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Part 2 – Private Force Today: a Global Perspective

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Private military companies – Russian great power politics on the cheap?

Åse Gilje Østensen & Tor Bukkvoll

Pages: 130-151

Published online: 29 Sep 2021

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The UAE’s ‘dogs of war’: boosting a small state’s regional power projection

Andreas Krieg

Pages: 152-172

Published online: 09 Jul 2021

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China’s private security companies and the protection of Chinese economic interests abroad

Jingdong Yuan

Pages: 173-195

Published online: 18 Jun 2021

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What does gender got to do with it? PMSCs and privatization of security revisited

Jutta Joachim & Andrea Schneiker

Pages: 196-223

Published online: 13 Nov 2021

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Mercenaries at the movies: representations of soldiers of fortune in Mexico and the Congo in American and European cinema

Paul B Rich

Pages: 224-249

Published online: 30 Jan 2022

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Part 3 – Private Force and the Future of International Security

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Contractors or robots? Future warfare between privatization and automation

Antonio Calcara

Pages: 250-271

Published online: 05 Aug 2021

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The rise of cybersecurity warriors?

Moritz Weiss

Pages: 272-293

Published online: 14 Sep 2021

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Concluding comments

Eugenio Cusumano & Christopher Kinsey

Pages: 294-312

Published online: 28 Dec 2021

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