The Anti-Mercenary Norm and United Nations’ Use of Private Military and Security Companies

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19426720-02501002" target="_blank" >10.1163/19426720-02501002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Anti-Mercenary Norm and United Nations’ Use of Private Military and Security Companies

Original language description

This article offers an analysis of the influence of the anti-mercenary norm on the United Nations’ use of services provided by private military and security companies (PMSCs). It follows a constructivist approach which focuses on violations of the anti-mercenary norm within the UN system and on the justifications and condemnations of these violations in official UN documents. The findings suggest that while the anti-mercenary norm is no longer puritanical, two key aspects of the norm—the lack of a proper cause and the lack of control—remain influential within the UN system. Although all parts of the UN system nowadays routinely use a wide variety of services of PMSCs and the UN Secretary-General officially sanctioned security outsourcing in 2011, the UN continues to insist that it is only using PMSCs as a last resort, when no other options are available. The continuing need to justify the use of PMSCs’ services suggests that this practice challenges both the long-established identity of the UN as a key anti-mercenary norm entrepreneur and its ontological security.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA16-02288S" target="_blank" >GA16-02288S: Anatomy of Revisionism and Its Impact on (Sub-)Regional Institutionalisations and Alliances</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations

ISSN

1075-2846

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

77-99

UT code for WoS article

000460501800006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062474954